Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Micro-wear patterns found on the teeth of long-extinct specimens o

HiMartyMurray , so I have kind of an off-topic question based on Q2 of the passage.

When a question says " The passage suggests that Person A's research indicates which of the following" - are we talking about person A's conclusions based on his research or rather the passage's (passage author's) interpretation of person A's research and so the author's conclusions based on person A's research. I believe it should be the latter option, and so in cases where the author and person A don't see eye-to-eye it is the author's inferences (based on person A's research) that the question is seeking.

Now this doesn't come into play in Q2-option B (correct answer) of the passage because "Walker" infers or shows that Australopithecine lack micro-wear characteristics associated with seed-eating and bone crunching, AND the author is in accordance with this too. But I believe that if there was an option stating something along the lines of "Fruit is one out of
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