The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Test | Final Test - Medium

Final Test

This test consists of 5 multiple choice, 5 short answer, and 0 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
a) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.
b) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.
c) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.
d) The human body developed in a three-stage process.

2. What does Wilson say is not genetic?
a) Musical talent.
b) The ability to learn languages.
c) The ability to sing.
d) The ability to hear tone.

3. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?
a) As functionally very different.
b) As structurally radically different.
c) As functionally equivalent.
d) As structurally equivalent.

4. Who says that the hand and brain both speak...
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