ayushgmatclub1 wrote:
VeritasKarishma can you please explain Q1 in detail and how to eliminate incorrect options? Thanks in advance!
ayushgmatclub1Referring to the passage, 3rd paragraph:
"Others, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss have argued that apparent patterns of development reflect fundamental similarities in the structure of human thought - called structuralism."
So structuralism is the fundamental similarity in the structure of human thought.
So people not in contact with each other and in different environments may have similar thoughts.
A- Two indigenous groups, from separate and isolated polar latitudes, developed similar customs in coping with the cold climate.
This says that the environment might make them establish similar habits. Incorrect.
B- Many of the customs of a South Pacific island culture are linked to the mainland cultures 3000 miles away; it is believed that some contact from primitive raft journeys took place between the cultures.
This indicates "diffusion" that the passage talks about.
C- Two ancient cultures with no interaction and vastly different climates were found by archaeologists to have developed strangely similar customs and innovations.
Correct. No contact, no similarity in environment and still similar thoughts. Points to structuralism.
D- Many of the modern astronomical and mathematical systems used today have been adapted from techniques developed by the Maya over 4,000 years ago.
Influence from previous generations. Incorrect.
E- Many important intellectual advances in human history, such as the development of calculus and evolutionary theory, took place independently of one another.
Different theories evolving independently. Incorrect.
Answer (C)