The Significance of Meat Eating for Future Human Evolution Was

Multiple Choice

The significance of meat eating for future human evolution was enormous. Not only did it provide a secure source of high quality protein, but as an accidental by product, it made possible the development of larger brains. The nutritive demands of nerve tissue are high-higher in fact than the demands of the other types of tissue in the human body. One can meet these demands on a vegetarian diet, but the overall nutritive value of a given amount of such food is less than that of the same amount of meat. William A. Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, 5th ed.

A) Argument; conclusion: The nutritive demands of nerve tissue ... human body.
B) Argument; conclusion: Not only did it provide a secure source ... larger brains.
C) Nonargument.
D) Argument; conclusion: The significance of meat eating ... was enormous.
E) Argument; conclusion: One can meet these demands ... amount of meat.