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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About 200,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have diverged into two distinct lineages usually known as what?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Cro-Magnon man.
(c) Neanderthals.
(d) Homo sapiens.

2. What did Charles Darwin realize about many organisms' traits?
(a) They often have survival benefits.
(b) They always have survival benefits.
(c) They do not appear to give any survival benefit, and some are adverse to survival.
(d) They sometimes have survival benefits.

3. Why does the author largely reject this belief?
(a) Many animals understand each other and other species.
(b) Many animals are capable of learning new information.
(c) Many animals have the capabilities to love.
(d) Many animals and most mammals use vocalizations; clearly, they convey some sense of meaning.

4. From what does the author derive clues regarding a species' long-term survival probability?
(a) How long it takes to develop prior to birth.
(b) How fast and strong it is.
(c) How much energy several species invest in self-repair.
(d) How able it is to repair itself.

5. What does the author say about primates with small testes?
(a) They are more aggressive.
(b) They mate infrequently.
(c) They mate frequently.
(d) They are more complaisant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Several scientifically rigorous genetic investigations of large populations conclusively demonstrate that roughly ______ percent of human children are not the genetic children of the male parent whom assumes genetic relatedness.

2. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?

3. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?

4. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?

5. What do these creatures grow?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what does the author conclude?

2. What have paleopathology investigations demonstrated regarding pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer humans and the average agricultural human?

3. What do most scientists think about language? How does this author's view differ from other's views?

4. What does Charles Darwin realize about some traits possessed by many organisms?

5. What does the author think about humans and chimps and how they should be properly considered, regarding species and genus?

6. What is the author's conclusion about art?

7. What is the conventional wisdom regarding pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies? Is this correct?

8. What is the purpose of this chapter?

9. What does the author suggest about humans and chimpanzees?

10. What are pidgins or creoles?

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