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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 the author propose regarding race?

2. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

3. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?

4. How are human females nearly unique among animals?

5. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the correlation between the sizes of the male and females of species?

2. When do various primates break off from the remaining higher primates?

3. What does the author say about chimps and humans, regarding their DNA?

4. What are pidgins or creoles?

5. What other creatures also practice agriculture, besides humans?

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

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

8. What is the significance of hidden estrus?

9. What does the author say about death?

10. With what does the author conclude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author recapitulates human evolutionary history from the earliest upright hominids to modern humans.

Part 1) Describe the evolution of man. Why do various changes take place? How do these many changes make humans what they are today?

Part 2) Could this evolutionary history be disputed? Why or why not?

Part 3) Will humans continue to evolve? Why or why not? Is each generation of humans evolving? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The arrival of Homo sapiens has generally heralded environmental over-exploitation through hunting and harvesting of resources at a rate far beyond which they could possibly be expected to be renewable.

Part 1) What examples does the author give to prove this statement? How did you respond to these examples? Why did you respond this way?

Part 2) What do these examples reveal about the power of humanity? Do other creatures have this type of power? Why or why not?

Part 3) Can humanity reverse this destruction? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

This book discusses menopause.

Part 1) What is menopause? How is it unique among humans? Why is it unique among humans?

Part 2) What are the benefits of menopause, according to the author? Is he able to back up his claims? Why or why not?

Part 3) Do you agree with the author's theory about menopause? Why or why not?

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