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The approach taken in this course to understand the complexity of our relationships to non-human
animals ... - correct answer ✔✔all choices are correct
The "human-animal" distinction - correct answer ✔✔likely originated with the domestication of animals,
and subsequently justified by Western philosophers
There are 3 common types of symbioses - correct answer ✔✔mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
Humans generally place animals into different categories according to their use. For example, animals
considered as pets are generally not eaten. However, in some cultures animals have multiple uses, and
as a result a pet animal might also be eaten. One example of a country where pet dogs are also eaten is -
correct answer ✔✔South Korea
Because for millions of years our ancestors' survival depended on recognizing the potential danger and
also food value of animals - correct answer ✔✔our brains' visual system evolved to quickly and
efficiently recognize animals
There are 3 foci or themes that will appear throughout this course. Select one that will NOT be covered
in this course. - correct answer ✔✔Appropriate methods for training your dog and cat.
In many non-Western cultures, non-human animals are - correct answer ✔✔incorporated into their
spiritual or religious beliefs
One way to describe and understand the biological connection between humans and other animals is -
correct answer ✔✔as types of ecological interrelationships that include 3 common type of symbioses
People of different cultures put non-human animals into different categories or groupings. These
categories primarily reflect - correct answer ✔✔how the animal(s) are used
, Before the emergence of the genus Homo, our Australopithecus earlier ancestors - correct answer
✔✔included a lot of plant material in their diet, as indicated by their relatively small back (molar)
teeth ????
Based on research, what type of environment is most preferred by humans at a young age? - correct
answer ✔✔Savanna
As our early ancestors became full-time predators—hunters of large game—they would also have
evolved psychological adaptations that - correct answer ✔✔attracted them to savanna-like landscapes
allowed them to see the world from a prey animal's perspective
allowed them to understand and empathize with what a prey animal feels
The available genetic evidence indicates that modern dogs evolved from - correct answer ✔✔an animal
most similar to the gray wolf
The archeologist Stephen Mithen has argued that the capacity to read an animal's mind, to see the world
from an animal's perspective, first appeared in fully modern humans. In Mithen's view, earlier pre-
modern ancestral humans, although successful hunters, - correct answer ✔✔used mind reading only for
other humans but not for other animals
When did our ancestors first start making tools according to archaeological evidence? (Note: mya=
million years ago) - correct answer ✔✔~2.5 mya
Typical savanna trees with a dense canopy and low branching trunk are preferred across cultures over
more familiar trees such as oak, conifer, palm, and eucalyptus. Why might this be? - correct answer
✔✔They invoke a subconscious attraction people have to the savannah terrain inhabited by our
evolutionary ancestors. AND They were important to our small-bodied ancestors as sleeping sites and for
escaping predators.
Anthropomorphism is - correct answer ✔✔the attribution of human mental states (thoughts, feeling,
motivations and beliefs) to nonhuman animals or objects
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