A larger brain allowed primates to develop which of the following capacities and abilities?
A. the ability to huddle in the forest to keep warm
B. use of smell to identify food
C. use of language to signal information to other members of the group
D. the ability to locomote within the forest
Answer: C
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A) a normal distribution B) a positively skewed distribution C) a two-peaked (bimodal) distribution D) a one-peaked unsymmetrical distribution
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a) shared heredity b) shared environment c) nonshared heredity d) nonshared environment
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