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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Animal Origins of Art.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whenever two groups with disparate developed languages come into occasional contact that, for social reasons, precludes the use of one or the other languages, what arises?
(a) Hatred and misunderstanding.
(b) War.
(c) The use of the dominant language.
(d) A new rudimentary communication system.

2. How are humans unique among primates?
(a) They are both social and monogamous.
(b) They perform sexual acts frequently.
(c) They are both social and polygamous.
(d) The are isolated and monogamous.

3. What is considered by most scientists to be uniquely human?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Learning.
(c) Language.
(d) Love.

4. How is this purely biological viewpoint on sexual encounters enormously complicated?
(a) By numerous asymmetrical social constructions.
(b) By the changes in human desires throughout the centuries.
(c) By the evolution of a polygamous desire to one that is monogamous.
(d) By contrasting research results.

5. What does the author state about the gap between animal vocalizations and human language?
(a) It is a large gap.
(b) It is greater than once commonly believed.
(c) It is not as great as is commonly believed.
(d) There is hardly a gap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Recently, molecular data obtained from DNA hybridization suggests what?

2. Why does the author reason "like marries like?"

3. With what is every reproductive event for a human female filled?

4. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?

5. What does the author argue about the life span of humans?

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