Hi experts,
KarishmaBMartyMurrayGMATNinjaTwofor (B) to the valid option, don't we have to assume that apple 5000 years ago was cultivated for a short time?
Since nothing in the stem makes us infer this, (B) can be eliminated
because we do not really know the "plant" talked about in this option is referring to the apple or some other plant
on the other hand , isn't (C) more plausible?
because what if apples 5000 years ago were the same size as the wild apples and later they became bigger
but because the author is only considering the possibility that,
an apple has a size of a wild apple or it has a size of cultivated apple found in supermarket
she has overlooked that the apple could also have been the size of a wild apple, in the past
Please, if someone can help
Thanks!
AshutoshB
Agricultural scientist: Wild apples are considerably smaller than cultivated apples found in supermarkets. In one particular region, archaeologists have looked for remains of cultivated apples dating from 5,000 years ago, around the time people first started cultivating fruit. But the only remains of apples that archaeologists have found from this period are from fruits the same size as the wild apples native to the region. So apples were probably not cultivated in this region 5,000 years ago.
The agricultural scientist's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
(A) fails to consider that even if a plant was not cultivated in a given region at a specific time, it may have been cultivated in nearby regions at that time"
(B) fails to consider that plants that have been cultivated for only a short time may tend to resemble their wild counterparts much more closely than plants that have been cultivated for a long time"
(C) takes for granted that all apples are either the size of wild apples or the size of the cultivated apples now found in supermarkets"
(D) employs a premise that is incompatible with the conclusion it is supposed to justify"
(E) uses a claim that presupposes the truth of its main conclusion as part of the justification for that conclusion
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