According to the passage, all of the following are true about the language instinct EXCEPT that:
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Explanatory Answer
The question asks us to pick an option which is not true.
According to the passage, Pinker 'effectively disposes of all claims that intelligent nonhuman primates like chimps have any abilities to learn and use language.' So, option A is not true (and hence the correct answer choice).
Option B is the exact opposite of A, and clearly true, as seen above.
According to the passage, a half-century ago, Chomsky/Pinker's idea of universal grammar 'would have been pooh-poohed as a "black box" theory' but 'neurosurgeons [have now found that this] "black box" is situated in and around Broca's area, on the left side of the forebrain'. So, option C is true.
The passage states that, according to Pinker, '....the "language instinct," when it first appeared among our most distant hominid ancestors, must have given them a selective reproductive advantage over their competitors (including the ancestral chimps)'. So, option D is also true.
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