Question for instructors: how can I find conditional stimuli JUST for diagram practicing (not to answer)? Is it best just to go to my pool of already answered questions with Conditional Reasoning tags?

The way I dissected Question 3 was to rewrite it as the following:

To maintain maximum deterrence from an aggressor by other nations, a nation must maintain a retaliatory force greater than that of any other nation. 

This allowed me to break apart the dependent clause, and focus only on the comparison illustrated in the independent clause after the comma. Does this method resonate with anyone else? Does it seem efficient?

Is the list of indicators here exhaustive?

In these examples, the stronge arguments base themselves upon support that i reasonably objective. The weaker arguments are built on support that is subjective.

The car, which was parked in the garage this morning, is now parked in the driveway. The car has also been dented. Tommy has a history of denting cars when he has taken them out to drive. The keys to the car were in Tommy's bedroom. My hypothesis is that Tommy drove the car and dented it in the process.

To simplify C:

Our DNA is not similar to Neanderthals restatement of conclusion. Our Ancestors DNA is either as similar read: not similar or LESS similar, but not (significantly) MORE similar.

Argument distills as:

Homo sapiens (known ancestors of us humans) can't have bred with Neanderthals because our DNA is way different than Neanderthals.

Comparative relationships:

DNA of Homo sapiens vs. us (similar)

DNA of Homo sapiens vs. Neanderthals (less similar than above)

-Notable assumptions here: we have DNA similar to Homo sapiens (our ancestors).

-Possible notable assumptions that might fit for SA: Our DNA must be similar to ALL our ancestors. If it's not similar, sorry but...they're not in the fam.

If Homo sapiens had DNA similar to Neanderthals to a meaningful degree, and was in fact MORE similar to Neanderthals, the anthropologist CANNOT rule out the possibility that we might also be related to Neanderthals.

His only reasoning that we can't be related to Neanderthals (conclusion) is because we don't share similar DNA (support).

Significantly different DNA = Not making it onto the family tree.