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Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (C)
It would seem from this stimulus that the poorly-balanced diet and health problems of the early agricultural peoples would have led them back to their healthier hunting and gathering days. However, such a return never occurred and this question asks us to find the cause of that failure to return. If you were to prephrase an answer to this question, your prephrased answer may have something to do with some intervening cause that made it impossible for the people to go back to their earlier hunting and gathering days.
Answer choice (A): Whether this occurred or not does nothing to explain why the people did not go back to hunting and gathering. From the stimulus, it seems as though the dietary problems of the agricultural people would have led them back to hunting and gathering regardless of where the plants were. They did not, though, and this answer choice provides no cause for that failure to return.
Answer choice (B): Since this is an issue that both the agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers faced, it does not provide a cause why the people would not go back to the healthier days of hunting and gathering.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. Sure, the agriculturists’ health and the balance of their diets is poor compared to earlier hunter-gatherers, but the intervening increase in population means that the same problems would likely exist in a present-day hunting and gathering society. In other words, more people means that there would not be enough for the society to hunt and gather and the same or worse health and dietary issues would result.
Answer choice (D): Just because the same shifts occurred elsewhere does nothing to explain why, once they realized that their health and diet was suffering, the people did not return to their prior hunting and gathering ways.
Answer choice (E): This would seem to make the issue more confusing. If the agriculturists burned more calories cultivating their food, it would seem as though they would need more sustenance to make up for the resulting calorie deficiency.
Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (C)
It would seem from this stimulus that the poorly-balanced diet and health problems of the early agricultural peoples would have led them back to their healthier hunting and gathering days. However, such a return never occurred and this question asks us to find the cause of that failure to return. If you were to prephrase an answer to this question, your prephrased answer may have something to do with some intervening cause that made it impossible for the people to go back to their earlier hunting and gathering days.
Answer choice (A): Whether this occurred or not does nothing to explain why the people did not go back to hunting and gathering. From the stimulus, it seems as though the dietary problems of the agricultural people would have led them back to hunting and gathering regardless of where the plants were. They did not, though, and this answer choice provides no cause for that failure to return.
Answer choice (B): Since this is an issue that both the agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers faced, it does not provide a cause why the people would not go back to the healthier days of hunting and gathering.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. Sure, the agriculturists’ health and the balance of their diets is poor compared to earlier hunter-gatherers, but the intervening increase in population means that the same problems would likely exist in a present-day hunting and gathering society. In other words, more people means that there would not be enough for the society to hunt and gather and the same or worse health and dietary issues would result.
Answer choice (D): Just because the same shifts occurred elsewhere does nothing to explain why, once they realized that their health and diet was suffering, the people did not return to their prior hunting and gathering ways.
Answer choice (E): This would seem to make the issue more confusing. If the agriculturists burned more calories cultivating their food, it would seem as though they would need more sustenance to make up for the resulting calorie deficiency.