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Practice Writing: Summarize Written Text
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All non-human animals are constrained by the tools that nature has bequeathed them through natural selection. They are not capable of striving towards truth; they simply absorb information and behave in ways useful for their survival. The kinds of knowledge they require of the world have been largely pre-selected by evolution. No animal is capable of asking questions or generating problems that are irrelevant to its immediate circumstances, or it's evolutionarily designed needs. When a beaver builds a dam, it doesn't ask itself why it does so, or whether there is a better way of doing it. When a swallow flies south, it doesn't wonder why it is hotter in Africa or what would happen if it flew still further south.
Humans do ask themselves these and many other kinds of questions, questions that have no relevance, indeed make little sense, in the context of evolved needs and goals. What marks out humans is our capacity to go beyond our naturally defined goals such as the need to find food, shelter or a mate and to establish humanly created goals.
Humans do ask themselves these and many other kinds of questions, questions that have no relevance, indeed make little sense, in the context of evolved needs and goals. What marks out humans is our capacity to go beyond our naturally defined goals such as the need to find food, shelter or a mate and to establish humanly created goals.
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Sample Answer 1
All non-human animals are restricted by the tools that nature has bequeathed them through natural selection, and what marks out humans is our capacity to go beyond our naturally defined goals such as the need to find food, shelter or a mate and to establish humanly created goals.
Sample Answer 2
Non-human animals are constrained due to natural selection, simply absorb information just for their survival, and are not capable of asking questions or generating problems irrelevant to their immediate circumstances or evolutionarily designed needs, while humans ask many questions in the context of evolved needs and goals and can go beyond our naturally defined goals, but humans are also incapable of answering certain questions because of our evolved nature.
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All non-human animals are
constrainedrestricted by the tools that nature has bequeathed them through natural selection, and what marks out humans is our capacity to go beyond our naturally defined goals such as the need to find food, shelter or a mate and to establish humanly created goals. -> Both sentences talking about nature.
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