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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bad Boys, Polyliths, and the Heterotechnic Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
(a) Children become improvisers before they can even talk.
(b) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.
(c) Children become problem solvers even before they can talk.
(d) Aspects of the evolutionary process perceived in Greenfield's theory.

2. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Aggressiveness.
(c) Group size.
(d) Evolution rate.

3. What is a polylith?
(a) A drawing with several layers.
(b) A drawing that is three dimensional.
(c) An object made of joined units or subassemblies.
(d) An object made completely of fibers.

4. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?
(a) Four.
(b) Twelve or thirteen.
(c) About six.
(d) Eight or nine.

5. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The brain.
(b) The spinal cord.
(c) The blood.
(d) The muscle itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?

2. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?

3. According to Wilson, why do children not usually enjoy doing juggling?

4. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?

5. Why was Serge Percelly told he had the eye for tennis?

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