(E) The greater lung capacity of mountain peoples that helps them live in oxygen-poor air as against people's inability to fly without special apparatus
27. It can be inferred that in his discussion of maladaptive frailties the author assumes that
(A) evolution does not favor the emergence of adaptive characteristics over the emergence of maladaptive ones
(B) any structure or behavior not positively adaptive is regarded as transitory in evolutionary theory
(C) maladaptive characteristics, once fixed, make the emergence of other maladaptive characteristics more likely
(D) the designation of a characteristic as being maladaptive must always remain highly tentative
(E) changes in the total human environment can outpace evolutionary change
28. PRESS:
(A) excel (B) desire (C) act (D) require
(E) withdraw
29. INNOCENCE:
(A) punishment (B) verdict (C) corrosion
(D) guilt (E) conflict
30. ELABORATE:
(A) criticize (B) simplify (C) imbue
(D) expel (E) confuse
31. PERSISTENCE:
(A) inequality (B) inconstancy
(C) irrelevance (D) incompetence
(E) intemperance
32. SKEPTICISM:
(A) plausibility (B) audacity (C) reason
(D) argument (E) conviction
33. REACTANT:
(A) by-product (B) low-grade ore
(C) inert material (D) inorganic substance
(E) nonradioactive element
34. CODA:
(A) prelude (B) crescendo (C) solo