The cerebral cortex is mostly made up of __________
a. bones and ligaments
b. fatty tissue
c. dendrites
d. cell bodies of neurons
Answer d
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a. the family disruption hypothesis. b. biological, with cultural variations. c. the "marry or die out" hypothesis. d. the childhood familiarity hypothesis.
At the site of Terra Amata, in southern France, archaeologists have documented human activity dating back some 300,000 years. What do findings there indicate?
A. Homo erectus engaged in warfare. B. Homo habilis had language. C. Early hominids cultivated plants. D. The site's inhabitants led an essentially human lifestyle. E. Neandertals were not fully human.
Which of the following was studied by Sapir and Whorf?
A. the interaction of thought and surface structure B. the influence of language on thought C. the influence of deep structure on surface structure D. the influence of deep structure on semantic domains E. the influence of culture on language
Many scientists believe that the loss of the megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene was due to overhunting. What factor gives reason to question this hypothesis?
A) The population of humans at the time was far too low to have had such an effect on mammal populations. B) Many birds went extinct around the same time, and there was no evidence that they were hunted. C) There is evidence that Pleistocene people scavenged, rather than hunted, for their meat. D) The megafauna did not go extinct; rather, the changing climate at the time favored smaller variants of these species.