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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 is the result of this evidence?

2. What kept this group of people isolated for so long?

3. Do the archaeological and historic records suggest that these views are correct?

4. Around 10,000 BCE what was the world's approximate human population?

5. What else does he do in the Epilogue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What principle is used to explain why animals can be self-destructive?

2. What does the Green Bank formula do?

3. What is exobiology?

4. What does the author suggest about the species on Earth and extinction rates?

5. Describe the migration of the Clovis culture into North and South America?

6. What languages dominate the world?

7. What occurred when European settlers first arrived in Tasmania?

8. What enabled population expansion?

9. What is known about destructive behavior in various species?

10. Describe European expansion.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Human sexuality varies from the sexuality of most primates.

Part 1) Compare and contrast human sexuality to the sexuality of other primates.

Part 2) Why do these differences exist? How do these differences affect the relationships and reproductive abilities of both humans and other primates?

Part 3) Are these aspects of human sexuality chosen by humans or are they decided by genetics and on a subconscious level? Use the text and other research from class to support your response.

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

Critics and psychologists analyzed the art, unknowingly, of animals.

Part 1) What are the results of the examinations? Do these results surprise you? Why or why not?

Part 2) Can one decide if something is art by simply observing it? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might these critics and psychologists have reacted when they realized they had just examined animal art? Why would they react this way?

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