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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. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?

2. What have a few captive gorillas and chimpanzees been taught to do?

3. What happens to all animals?

4. Around 500,000 years ago, H. erectus appears to have given rise to who?

5. H. erectus was not the first upright hominid but bears the appellation. Why?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the study of testis and penis size among primates useful?

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

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

4. How does the author conclude this chapter?

5. By what is the author's biological viewpoint complicated?

6. What is unusual about human sexuality?

7. How is the third criterion not uniquely human?

8. With what does the author conclude?

9. What does the author say about the first proto-human hominids?

10. What takes place about 200,000 years ago?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author investigates rudimentary human languages such as pidgins and creoles.

Part 1) What are pidgins and creoles? How do they differ from other languages?

Part 2) What is the purpose of pidgins and creoles? Why has the author decided to discuss them?

Part 3) How do pidgins and creoles help support the author's view about the gap that exists between human language and animal vocalizations?

Essay Topic 2

A chapter in this book presents the question, why are we attracted to certain types of people?

Part 1) What does the author give as an explanation for this? What research does the author provide to back his claims?

Part 2) Do you believe that the author's research is valid? Why or why not? Are their aspects of attraction that are missing in the author's research? If so, what?

Part 3) How much of one's interest in another is on a subconscious level, how much is based on the decisions one consciously makes? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

The author attempts to establish that humans and chimps are biologically and genetically closely related.

Part 1) How does he go about this? Is his research valid? Why or why not?

Part 2) Why might his research be disputed? Why might others have a difficult time accepting that humans are closely related to chimps?

Part 3) If it is universally accepted that humans and chimps are closely related, how should chimps be treated? Should they be treated as other animals or in a more "human" way? Why?

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