DISCUSSION: I would say the two main differences are:
- Passage A is about how bees communicate, whereas passage B is about symbolic communication.
- Passage A is only about bees, whereas passage B refers to many animals.
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- CORRECT. This is true. Passage A just talks about bees, whereas in the first paragraph passage B talks about birds, primates, ants, fish and vervet monkeys.
- Nonsense. Passage B discusses specific support, such as the experiment with vervet recordings (paragraph 1) and Gould training bees to forage in a boat (paragraph 3).
Those experiments support the theories. - Passage B mentions von Frisch (line 49), who did research in the 1940s (line 7). So passage B isn’t focussed only on recent theories.
You might think “but passage A mentioned Aristotle!”. Yes, but not Aristotle’s theories: the passage specifically says that Aristotle had no theories about honeybee communication.
See lines 3-4. - Passage A doesn’t mention the symbolic/non-symbolic distinction.
- Passage B doesn’t mentioned human communication.
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