For #2, I got confused thinking the below sentence was the conclusion since the other sentences support it as premises. I then remembered that the goal of every argument is persuasion, which helped a lot, since the author isn't trying to persuade us of anything here.
"Scientists theorize that the more genetically similar two species are to each other, the more recently they diverged from a common ancestor."
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For #2, I got confused thinking the below sentence was the conclusion since the other sentences support it as premises. I then remembered that the goal of every argument is persuasion, which helped a lot, since the author isn't trying to persuade us of anything here.
"Scientists theorize that the more genetically similar two species are to each other, the more recently they diverged from a common ancestor."