Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Eugenics is the study of and policies related to improvement of the human race via control over selective reproduction.
2. Atavism is the belief that certain characteristics or behaviors of a person are throwbacks to an earlier stage of evolutionary development.
3. Lombroso’s documentation of some of the tattoos he saw on known criminal offenders included many tattoos that featured female names or some motto such as “born under an unlucky star” or “man of misfortune.”
4. The front portion of the brain is called the splenium.
5. Lombroso examined the bodies of captured war criminals in his research concerning the born criminal.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

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