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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, In Black and White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the most intriguing results of this analysis is the observation of ___________________________.
(a) Correlation components.
(b) Correlation coefficients.
(c) Coronation coefficients.
(d) Coronation components.

2. Why do many scientists believe human infants learn language?
(a) Because they, like all creatures, have the capacity to understand some vocalizations.
(b) Because they possess biological linguistic adaptations.
(c) Because they speak their own language as infants and toddlers.
(d) Because they must survive through that language.

3. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?
(a) Traits that are different from one's own.
(b) Traits that contrast with one's own.
(c) Traits that closely approximate their own.
(d) Traits that are not dominant in one's own.

4. What did some European inhabitants of Australia argue should be carried out in Australia?
(a) More assimilation.
(b) Less assimilation.
(c) A similar genocide.
(d) Less genocide.

5. What primates are monogamous and solitary?
(a) Gorillas.
(b) Gibbons.
(c) Apes.
(d) Chimpanzees.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?

2. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?

3. What is the result of this evidence?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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