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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. How is this possible that these people could achieve all of this?

2. How do many imagine that humans lived during certain periods of time?

3. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?

4. How could one describe the factors involved in the formula?

5. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Blitzkrieg?

3. What has been discovered about various human settlers?

4. What do first contacts involve?

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

6. What was one of the last major first contacts?

7. What does the Green Bank formula do?

8. What enabled population expansion?

9. What is exobiology?

10. What imminent risks to survival does humanity face?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genocide is analyzed on an historical level.

Part 1) What is genocide? Why does it take place?

Part 2) What examples does the author give for genocide? How are these examples surprising?

Part 3) Is genocide uniquely human? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Ernst Mayr's biological species concept is used as the de facto biological definition of species.

Part 1) What is Ernst Mayr's biological species concept? Why is it used as the de facto biological definition of species?

Part 2) Is the concept appropriate for defining species? Why or why not?

Part 3) What other information in this text might be viewed as incomplete or incorrect? Why? How does this affect the validity of the book as a whole?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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