Critical Reasoning (CR) | Archaeologists have long debated what caused the neolithic revolution

E. Evidence suggests that, at the beginning of the neolithic revolution, regions where plant and animal domestication began had optimal conditions for hunting andgathering.

This choice challenges the marginality hypothesis.

After all, the whole point of the hypothesis is that people began began domesticating plants and animals because they had to where they lived since, in those regions, hunting and gathering were not sufficient for survival.

So, evidence suggesting that plant and animal domestication began in regions with optimal conditions for hunting and gathering would indicate that the hypothesis is incorrect. After all, if regions where plant and animal domestication began had optimal conditions for hunting and gathering, then the people who began plant and animal domestication clearly had not been forced to "move to neighboring regions, where domesticating plants and animals would be necessary for survival."

The correct answer is(E).