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Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neande [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2017, 15:52
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Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens never mated, but advances in genetic testing proved that incorrect — such is the _________ nature of science.

A. fallacious
B. evolving
C. counterfactual
D. advancing
E. vacillating
F. indeterminable


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Re: Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neande [#permalink] New post   08 Oct 2017, 05:03
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Sometimes a seeming theme trap (evolving) is not a trap — this sentence is literally about evolution, and also uses evolving as a metaphor. Fallacious and counterfactual is an incorrect pair that reflects misunderstanding the sentence, which certainly doesn’t say that all science is wrong, just that it is its nature to constantly revise in the face of new information.

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Re: Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neande [#permalink] New post   21 Mar 2018, 20:51
Vacillate means to waver back and forth; vacillate means to oscillate
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Re: Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neande [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2019, 02:48
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Re: Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neande [#permalink] New post   29 May 2019, 06:41
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Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens never mated, but advances in genetic testing proved that incorrect — such is the _________ nature of science.

A. fallacious
B. evolving
C. counterfactual
D. advancing
E. vacillating
F. indeterminable


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B and D

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The key words here are BELIEVED and PROVED

So, in the past anthropologists BELIEVED one thing, but now that science has advanced, anthropologists KNOW that thing is not true.

In other words, the science is getting better. It's IMPROVING.

Let's predict IMPROVING for the blank.

Check the answer choices.... B and D fit nicely with the prediction.

Answer: B & D

ASIDE: Many people will be drawn to E (VACILLATING), but this suggests that science can go from BELIEVING to KNOWING and also from KNOWING to BELIEVING. However, there are no contextual clues to back this up.

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Re: Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neande [#permalink] New post   27 Aug 2021, 05:51
Formerly scientists believed that no mating took place between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, but now genetic testing - which is a scientific device - proved them incorrect.

What does this tell you about the nature of science?

It tells us that science is constantly improving its methods and revising its conclusions as newer technologies and methodologies become available.

Therefore the answers are evolving and advancing.
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