Question

Read Paragraph 11 from the passage. With the development of agriculture, the human population grew, thriving on plentiful harvests of wheat and barley. But the area around the grain fields was not good for wild animals. When people cleared a piece of land, the gazelles, red deer, wild boar, and goats that once roamed there lost much of their natural food supply, and so they moved on. As time passed, hunters found fewer and fewer animals to hunt. Hunting had always required great skill. Now hunters needed even greater skill if they wanted to eat meat. What is the author's purpose for including this paragraph in the passage

Answer 1

Purpose of given paragraph in the text is to depict the phenomena struggle for existence.

Explanation:

Rapid population growth promotes rapid agricultural and industrial development. And for accommodating such huge population all the natural habitats of wild life is being cleared which accelerates habitat destruction and environmental degradation.

Those who take hunting, gathering as their source of livelihood they suffer lot more due to the deficiency of their food. Gatherers do not get fruits or woods and meats for hunters as well. Because man desperately destroying vegetation and in effect wild life is also destroying. So, to be in world you have to struggle for your existence.