Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. The significance of meat eating for future human evolution was enormous. Not only did it provide a secure source
of high quality protein, but as an accidental by product, it made possible the development of larger brains. The nutritive demands of nerve tissue are high-higher in fact than the demands of the other types of tissue in the human body. One can meet these demands on a vegetarian diet, but the overall nutritive value of a given amount of such food is less than that of the same amount of meat. William A. Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, 5th ed.
A) Argument; conclusion: The nutritive demands of nerve tissue ... human body.
B) Argument; conclusion: Not only did it provide a secure source ... larger brains.
C) Nonargument.
D) Argument; conclusion: The significance of meat eating ... was enormous.
E) Argument; conclusion: One can meet these demands ... amount of meat.
D
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