The passage suggests that, in comparison with the hominid australopithecines, modern humans are

According to the passage, the hominid australopithecine most closely resembled a modern human with respect to which of the following characteristics?

The passage suggests that proponents of the theory mentioned in lines 35–38 assume that which of the following steps in human evolution occurred most recently?

The primary purpose of the passage is to

The “widely held predictions” mentioned in line 25 are predictions about the

The “serious problem” referred to in line 17 could be solved if which of the following were true?

According to the passage, the dynamical evidence referred to in lines 9–10 supports which of the following?

The primary purpose of the passage is to

The author of the passage would be most likely to agree that a writer’s fiction should be evaluated by which of the following criteria?

Which of the following can most logically be inferred about the author’s estimation of the romantic and novelistic traditions of fiction?