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Quiz: Bad Boys, Polyliths, and the Heterotechnic Revolution to Lucy to Lulu to Rose

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
a) For about 10,000 years.
b) For about 25,000 years.
c) More than a million years.
d) Over 100,000 years.

2. What rule does Greenfield propose?
a) A rule that illustrates how an adult can sometimes change hand dominence.
b) A rule that illustrates how a child can sometimes change hand dominence.
c) A hierarchical rule generator.
d) A rule that a person uses to decide what skills to develop.

3. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
a) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.
b) Aspects of...
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