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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 Wilson say is an emotional experience?

2. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?

3. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?

4. What must the magician do for success?

5. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

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

6. What must chefs do to create a meal?

7. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?

8. Why does Wilson bring up his friend Jack Schaefer?

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

10. Describe Peter Reynolds work.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In order for hominids to expand their range into habitats beyond the jungle, they required continuing brain evolution. The expansion of territory by hominids took group cooperation for survival. A professor of biology from the University of Liverpool named Robin Dunbar proposes a theory of brain growth, language and intelligence to correlate neocortex, brain size, with a stable group or tribe.

1. Explain how greater intelligence enabled hominids to leave the jungle. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Explain, in depth, why cooperation among hominids would be an important aspect of survival. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Discuss ways in which cooperation and social living might increase the brain size or intelligence of hominids. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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