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Disproportionate emphasis on instances of invention, such as the emergence of potter’s wheels circa 4500 BCE, contributes to a pro-innovation bias that __________ studies of the history of technology. More attention to technological discontinuance (e.g., the loss of various hunting and fishing implements in Tasmania over thousands of years) is thus a necessary corrective to the dominant view that innovations are steadily and inevitably adopted.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A
supersedes
B
pervades
C
abridges
D
foments