Identify the Main Point or Issue in the Following Passage

question 75

Essay

Identify the main point or issue in the following passage, and decide whether the rest of the passage offers reasons for the main point (such as, whether the passage contains an argument), whether it illustrates (provides examples for) the main point, whether it explains the point, is irrelevant to the point, and so on.
"With little experience in homicide cases, the Greenwich Police Department made a number of critical mistakes. One was not insisting on a speedy autopsy: because the forensic examination of Martha's body was delayed for nearly a day, the time of death is unusually imprecise. Another was the failure to get a search warrant for the Skakel home."
-Newsweek

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Definitions:

Distant Future

A time period far ahead from the present, often considered in planning, forecasting, or speculative discussions.

Natural Selection

The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, a key mechanism of evolution.

Group Selection

A theoretical evolutionary process that argues for the selection of traits beneficial to a group, rather than individuals.

Biologists

Scientists who study living organisms and their interaction with the environment, covering various fields from marine biology to genetics.