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Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated nests, or [#permalink] New post 15 Apr 2011, 21:00
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Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated nests, or bowers. Basing their judgment on the fact that different local populations of bowerbirds of the same species build bowers that exhibit different building and decorative styles, researchers have concluded that the bowerbirds’ building styles are a culturally acquired, rather than a genetically transmitted, trait.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the researchers?

A. There are more common characteristics than there are differences among the bowerbuilding styles of the local bowerbird population that has been studied most extensively.
B. Young male bowerbirds are inept at bowerbuilding and apparently spend years watching their elders before becoming accomplished in the local bower style.
C. The bowers of one species of bowerbird lack the towers and ornamentation characteristic of the bowers of most other species of bowerbird.
D. Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia, where local populations of the birds apparently seldom have contact with one another.
E. It is well known that the song dialects of some songbirds are learned rather than transmitted genetically.

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Re: Bowerbirds [#permalink] New post 15 Apr 2011, 23:46
D. Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia, where local populations of the birds apparently seldom have contact with one another.

D does not disprove the fact that the building style could still be genetically transmitted among species.
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Re: Bowerbirds [#permalink] New post 16 Apr 2011, 00:08
It's truly (B)
I saw few other questions with the same line of reasoning.
But why we can't use (C)? I feel it's incorrect, but can't explain with words)
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Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated nests, or bowers. Basing their judgment on the fact that different local populations of bowerbirds of the same species build bowers that exhibit different building and decorative styles, researchers have concluded that the bowerbirds’ building styles are a culturally acquired, rather than a genetically transmitted, trait.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the researchers?

The conclusion is building styles are culturally acquired and are not genetically transmitted.

C. The bowers of one species of bowerbird lack the towers and ornamentation characteristic of the bowers of most other species of bowerbird.

C proves that the building styles are different among different species, but does it prove that the building styles are not genetically transmitted among same species?. I think you may be getting confused by different species and same species. It is enough to consider the same species, since that is what the author is primarily talking about.
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Re: Bowerbirds [#permalink] New post 16 Apr 2011, 01:56
Yes, i'm getting it.
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Re: Bowerbirds [#permalink] New post 27 Apr 2011, 07:31
'Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia, where local populations of the birds apparently seldom have contact with one another.'

they may still have very similar style of making nests , as they are genetically same species. so D does not in anyway strengthen the argument.
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