Networks of blood vessels in bats' wings serve only to disperse heat generated in flight. This heat is generated only because bats flap their wings. Thus paleontologists' recent discovery that the winged dinosaur Sandactylus had similar networks of blood vessels in the skin of its wings provides evidence for the hypothesis that Sandactylus flew by flapping its wings, not just by gliding.
The argument in the passage relies on which of the following assumptions?
Networks of blood vessels in bats' wings serve only to disperse heat generated in flight. This heat is generated only because bats flap their wings. Thus paleontologists' recent discovery that the winged dinosaur Sandactylus had similar networks of blood vessels in the skin of its wings provides evidence for the hypothesis that Sandactylus flew by lapping its wings, not just by gliding.
The argument in the passage relies on which of the following assumptions?
(A)Sandactylus would not have had networks of blood vessels in the skin of its wings if these networks were of no use to Sandactylus. (B) All creatures that fly by flapping their wings have networks of blood vessels in the skin of their wings. (C)Winged dinosaurs that flapped their wings in flight would have been able to fly more effectively than winged dinosaurs that could only glide. (D) If Sandactylus flew by flapping its wings, then paleontologists would certainly be able to find some evidence that it did so. (E)Heat generated by Sandactylus in flapping its wings in flight could not have been dispersed by anything other than the blood vessels in its wings.
我觉得是不是可以这样理解,题目中的结论是:S的similar blood network只是为假设--S不仅仅是gliding(也flaping)提供evidence,那么题目就可以看成是network 支持flaping的一个假设条件是什么,而E取非后,Heat generated by Sandactylus in flapping its wings in flight could have been dispersed by anything other than the blood vessels in its wings.这个取非不能对network不支持flaping产生任何威胁,因为即使可以通过其他方式散热,network也有可能支持flapping.