Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Estonian and Finnish people

I too missed the word "least" and chose wrong answer.

Now D makes more sense, every other options undermines the author's explanation.

A. The earliest settlements found in Finland exhibit cultural influences common to Estonians and Finns predate the earliest settlements found in Estonia that exhibit these traits. => both estonians and Finns could derived from common branch, also people with these traits were present even before settlement in Estonia => Finn people could have
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