Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion $A$ and the other is labelled as Reason $R$:
Assertion $(A)$: Recent studies do not entirely support the Gause's 'Competitive Exclusion Principle' in nature.
Reason $(R)$: Recent studies of competition rule out the occurrence of interspecific competition in nature.
In the light of the above statements,choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

• A
  Assertion and Reason both are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
• B
  Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
• C
  Assertion is incorrect but Reason is correct.
• D
  Assertion and Reason both are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.