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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?

2. To whom does Wilson refer for information on heuristics of language and music?

3. Who must suspend their disbelief?

4. How do physicians get patients to take their medicines and follow instructions?

5. Why don't the ground mammals at this time eat the fruit in the trees?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author think about concerning a high school language teacher?

2. Upon what does early medicine rely?

3. Describe Peter Reynolds work.

4. What does Wilson say about stone knapping?

5. Explain the studies that are conducted by a joint effort of University of New Mexico and Gallaudet University?

6. What two brain task does Noam Chomsky say are necessary for an individual to speak a language?

7. Who is Patricia Greenfield and what does she theorize?

8. What is one thing that influences which hand is dominant and what are a couple other characteristics that are often associated with one dominant hand or the other?

9. Explain the term "BackTur."

10. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The human brain accounts for intelligence or the ability to discover, weigh and relate facts to solve problems. Wilson claims there are two problem-solving strategies that stand out. They are the ability to design and manufacture a large, diverse, specialized inventory of tools and the use of words established by agreement among people as codes and symbols to stand for a real-world object or process.

1. Explain, in depth, why the ability to discover, weigh, and relate facts is a good measure of intelligence. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Explain why the ability to design and manufacture tools is an important survival skill and problem solving ability. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Explain how language consists of agreements about codes and symbols among people. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Wilson reflects on the notion that each of us evolve over time in our own lives by unifying body and spirit through personal growth and learning. For example, Percelly and David both cross paths of trouble and opportunity mixed with family and tribal routines to try new skills or combinations. These new-found abilities are part of their repertoire that becomes useful to them and can be passed on to others.

1. Explain why Wilson might believe that personal growth helps unite the spirit and the body. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Discuss the ways in which having trouble in a person's life could be an opportunity. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Discuss ways in which a person in a family or group or tribe learning new skills might benefit the entire group. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. Mary Marzke follows up on Napier's initial work to classify three types of grip that are defined as pad-to-side, three-jawed chuck and five-jawed cradle. Describe the three types of grips in detail and discuss why you do or do not agree with Marzke that there are only three types of grips. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. What are the eight features of the human hand that Marzke discusses and why are they important? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Describe what you think is the single most important modification of the ape hand to human society and why you think it is. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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