ketkoag wrote:The wild mouflon sheep of the island of Corsica are direct descendants of sheep that escaped from domestication on the island 8,000 years ago. They therefore provide archaeologists with a picture of what some early domesticated sheep looked like, before the deliberate selective breeding that produced modern domesticated sheep began.
The argument above makes which of the following assumptions?
(A) The domesticated sheep of 8,000 years ago were quite dissimilar from the wild sheep of the time.
(B) There are no other existing breeds of sheep that escaped from domestication at about the same time as the forebears of the mouflon.
(C) Modern domesticated sheep are direct descendants of sheep that were wild 8,000 years ago.
(D) Mouflon sheep are more similar to their forebears of 8,000 years ago than modern domesticated sheep are to theirs.
(E) The climate of Corsica has not changed at all in the last 8,000 years.

PAB2706 wrote:IMO D

I think the main point tht author is talking bout is tht the mouflon sheep has not changed in the past 8000 years like the modern sheep which have changed bcos of selective breeding and thus the mouflon sheep is the best representation of the early domesticated sheep.

i think the author has already inferred in the passage tht the mouflon sheep is the only sheep remaining tht depicts the early sheep breed and thus B could be the inference rather than assumption.

Pls correct me if i am thinking in the wrong direction.