Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Every human culture has taboos against eating certain animals.

Understanding the argument - ­
Anthropologist: Every human culture has taboos against eating certain animals. - Background info. 
Some researchers have argued that such taboos originated solely for practical reasons, pointing out, for example, that in many cultures it is taboo to eat domestic animals that provide labor and that are therefore worth more alive than dead. - Some researchers conclude that these Taboos originated from practical reasons. 
But that conclusion is unwarranted (unjustified); taboos against eating certain animals might instead have arisen for symbolic, ritualistic reasons, and the presence of the taboos might then have led people to find other uses for those animals. - Anthropologist's conclusion and supporting premise. Ritualistic reasons led to taboos, and when they couldn't kill these animals, they found some practical uses.

In the argument, the anthropologist

(A) calls an explanation (practical reasons) of a phenomenon (taboos) into question by pointing
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