Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: ­­Tennyson's line of poetry "nature, red in tooth and claw" is

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The claim about the publication dates of Tennyson's poem and Darwin's theory plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

(A) It casts doubt on whether the theory of evolution should be attributed to Darwin alone.
No, it doesn't cast any doubt on who was the creator of theory

(B) It supports the claim that creationist theories of biology were dominant in the early nineteenth century.
No, It doesn't provide any support to that. there are two evidence one is date publish and second one which led to proof of existence of creationist theory in 19th century. But both supporting same conclusion that tennyson was not mentioning to darwin theory

(C) It provides reason to believe that Tennyson did not know about Darwin's theory when the poem waspublished.
Yes, that's why he could not be possibly referring to it

(D) It suggests that Tennyson's line provided Darwin with the inspiration for developing his theory.
No, cant be inferred

(E) It implies that Tennyson knew little
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