LSAT 139 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q8

RC Question 8 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The passages actually don’t have much in common. The main thing they do have in common is describing researchers’ efforts to understand how animals communicate.

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1. I don’t believe either passage argued that animals have a human like intelligence. 
2. Passage B talks about primate communication, but passage A only talks about bees.
3. CORRECT. Both passages talk about scientists’ studies. E.g. Wenner, Gould, von Frisch.
4. Both passages do mention conflicting research on honeybees. (All of passage A, and lines 53-55 of passage B).
    
   But that’s not the same thing as “airing a controversy”. That would normally involve a lengthy discussion of the history of the controversy, the arguments of both sides, and a summary of what remains uncertain. Passage B certainly doesn’t do that.
5. Passage A never even talked about symbolic language. And passage B didn’t describe the conditions for symbolic languages.