QUESTION TYPE: Role in Argument
ANALYSIS: The argument has the following structure: Humans are still adapted to a diet of wild foods (intermediate conclusion), because we have evolved little since agriculture (premise supporting intermediate conclusion). Straying from diet results in problems (premise supporting both conclusions); therefore the more our diet consists of wild foods, the healthier we will be (main conclusion).
This argument is the paleo diet in a nutshell.
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- The premise that we have evolved little also supports this intermediate conclusion.
- No. It is an intermediate conclusion supported by other premises.
- It explains the main conclusion.
- CORRECT. Yes. It supports the main conclusion by offering a reason why we are healthier on a wild food diet. It is in turn explained by the info that we have evolved little since agriculture.
- This gets it backwards. We are biologically adapted to a wild diet because we have evolved little.
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