我想第23题还是C比较是文章的重心: 作者提出新的观点transition to a nuclear family对人类演化的影响, walk upright是演化的一环 C: argue that the transition to a nuclear family structure was a more crucial step in human evolution than was the development of stone tools
If the small-brained australopithecines were not toolmakers, what evolutionary advantage did they gain by walking upright? (Line 50) One theory is that bipedality evolved in conjunction with the nuclear family: monogamous parents cooperating to care for their offspring. Walking upright permitted the father to use his hands to gather food and carry it to his mate from a distance, allowing the mother to devote more time and energy to nurturing and protecting their children. According to this view, the transition to bipedal walking may have occurred as long as ten million years ago, at the time of the earliest hominids, making it a crucial initiating event in human evolution.