Logical Reasoning

PT136 · S4 · Q18 A high-calorie diet providing

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A high-calorie diet providing adequate fats was a crucial requirement for the evolution of the anatomically modern human brain, a process that began among our early human ancestors.

Apparent Paradox

A high-calorie diet providing adequate fats was a crucial requirement for the evolution of the anatomically modern human brain, a process that began among our early human ancestors.

Food resources that could support such a diet were most abundant and reliable in the shore environments that were available to early humans.

Nevertheless, the human brain's evolution took place almost exclusively in savanna and woodland areas.

Evaluate

Why would it be that the human brain’s evolution would take place in an area that is not the most abundant and reliable.

18.

Which one of the following, if true, would most help to resolve the apparent conflict presented above?

  1. Early humans had a significantly

    Out of Scope

    How the early humans expended their fat reserves, does not indicate where they got those fat reserves from.

    8% picked this

  2. The brains of the earliest

    Irrelevant Comparison

    This is comparing early humans with humans today, while the right answer should explain why humans found a fatty diet in savanna and woodland areas.

    2% picked this

  3. Prehistoric savanna and woodland areas

    Irrelevant Comparison

    This is comparing early humans with humans today, while the right answer should explain why humans found a fatty diet in savanna and woodland areas.

    19% picked this

  4. The techniques used to explore

    Out of Scope

    The issue is why did the early human brain transform in an environment that most likely lacked the characteristics that are required of that transformation.

    1% picked this

  5. Correct

    Gathering food in shore environments

    Why this is right

    This would explain why early humans would not have preferred the shore environment and opted to live somewhere easier to gather food.

    Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    70% picked this

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