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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. What does Herophilus discover?
2. Who is Robin Dunbar?
3. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?
4. What is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?
5. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has to happen in order for the thumb to be useful?
2. What does practice after learning do?
3. What does Mary Marzke classify and how does she do so?
4. What aspects of the human capacity for passionate, creative work does Wilson illustrate?
5. What do humans need to move out of the jungle?
6. How did Duchenne demonstrate the physiology of movement?
7. What does Wilson say about juggling as a pastime?
8. How does the touch of the pianist differ from that of the rock climber?
9. Who is David and how is he able to succeed at wrestling despite not being very strong?
10. What did Herophilus and Galen discover?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chose one of the following:
1. The hand has been used through its long history for both social interaction and attention. Discuss, in depth, how hands are used for social interaction. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Discuss in depth, some of the ways in which the hand is used for getting attention. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Social pressures often dictate which hand is dominant or most frequently used, such as right or left handedness, and attribute to it other irrelevant characteristics like intelligence or sex. Why do you think people connect unrelated characteristics with which hand is dominant? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Wilson claims the brain and musculoskeletal systems evolve by changing structure and function over time, the bipedal gait and upper limb changes are characteristic of the hominid line distinct from primates, and the driving force of hominid brain evolution is the brain and society as hominids expand their range beyond the jungle into other habitats.
1. Explain what Wilson means by the brain and musculoskeletal systems changing structure and function. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Discuss, in depth, how the bipedal gait and upper limbs differ between hominids and apes. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Discuss reasons you think expanding the range of habitats made the hominid more intelligent. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Hands can learn to function in a complementary partnership, become an articulate organ with which to express oneself and associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain.
1. Give three examples of hands working as complementary partners and explain, in depth, those examples. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can become an articulate organ with which to express itself. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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