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

3. What example does Darwin give to support his theory?

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

5. What does the author think of the second criterion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence exists about people who are raised around members of a race different from their own genetic race?

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

3. How is the first criterion not uniquely human?

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

5. What are other traits are highly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

6. Describe both Neanderthals.

7. What is the purpose of this chapter?

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

9. What are pidgins or creoles?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

One chapter suggests that languages are not unique within humans except to the degree in which they have been developed.

Part 1) What is considered language? According to the author, how is language not completely unique within humans?

Part 2) How do other animals use language to communicate? How do these vocalizations compare to human language?

Part 3) Is it possible for language to continue to develop over time for both humans and other animals? Why or why not? Use the text to support your response.

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