This was the first “hard science” passage ever to appear on the LSAT. The passage discusses adaptive responses in organisms and features an extended discussion of developmental responses in waterbugs… hence the name. The text includes fun terms like “dimorphic,” “macropterous,” and “micropterous,” which were quickly forgotten by the end of the passage.This passage contained only six questions, but the discussion of classical social psychological theories (“relative deprivation” and “J-curve,” to name two) in Civil Rights movement literature caused fits for most students.
This is possibly the easiest of the passages on the list. Of course, because this list is about the hardest LSAT passages of all time, that still makes this passage extremely challenging. Here’s a brief, fair-use sample of the text: “The Western scientific heritage is founded upon an epistemological system that prizes the objective over the subjective, the logical over the intuitive and the empirically verifiable over the mystical.” Umm, yeah, what he said.
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TAMA
Explanation:
This was the first “hard science” passage ever to appear on the LSAT. The passage discusses adaptive responses in organisms and features an extended discussion of developmental responses in waterbugs… hence the name. The text includes fun terms like “dimorphic,” “macropterous,” and “micropterous,” which were quickly forgotten by the end of the passage.This passage contained only six questions, but the discussion of classical social psychological theories (“relative deprivation” and “J-curve,” to name two) in Civil Rights movement literature caused fits for most students.
This is possibly the easiest of the passages on the list. Of course, because this list is about the hardest LSAT passages of all time, that still makes this passage extremely challenging. Here’s a brief, fair-use sample of the text: “The Western scientific heritage is founded upon an epistemological system that prizes the objective over the subjective, the logical over the intuitive and the empirically verifiable over the mystical.” Umm, yeah, what he said.