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The approach taken in this course to understand the complexity of our relationships to non-human
animals ... - correct answer ✔✔-is based on scientific evidence
-examines how these relationships have developed over time, geographic region, and cultural contexts
-is multi-disciplinary
"human-animal" distinction - correct answer ✔✔likely originated with the domestication of animals, and
subsequently justified by Western philosophers
3 types of symbioses - correct answer ✔✔mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
Research with young infants' responses to visual images of schematic spiders suggests that - correct
answer ✔✔the human brain has evolved to preferentially process visual images of animal stimuli that
were important to our ancestors AND infants pay special attention to life-like schematic images of
spiders
One example of a country where pet dogs are also eaten is - correct answer ✔✔South Korea
Based on archaeological evidence, the earliest connection between Hominins and other animals
included: - correct answer ✔✔-hominins as scavengers of carcasses
-hominins as cautious or fearful of poisonous or venomous animals
-hominins as opportunistic hunters of small game
-hominins as prey of carnivores
Anthropomorphism - correct answer ✔✔the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god,
animal, or object.
, Paleontological evidence shows the spread of humans all over the planet began with two migratory
waves from the land of our origins. Which statement about these Hominins is NOT correct: - correct
answer ✔✔hominins of the first wave were Australopithecines
Researchers who study modern hunter-gatherers with hunting dogs find that humans and dogs both
benefit from the relationship in the following ways: (select all correct choices) - correct answer ✔✔-Dogs
that are skilled at hunting are given medical attention, a benefit to some dogs.
-Dogs are given scraps of what is being eaten, a benefit to the dogs.
-Having dogs increases the rate at which prey animals are encountered, a benefit to the humans.
-Dogs can use their keen senses to detect prey animals, which is a benefit to the humans.
-Dogs decrease the amount of time devoted to hunting, which is a benefit to the humans.
-Dogs are allowed in the settlements and can scavenge from the kitchen, a benefit to the dogs
Under the "Camp Dog" hypothesis, what is proposed as the steps toward dog domestication? - correct
answer ✔✔Wolves "self-selected" for low fear and aggression, and later were domesticated once
humans were in permanent settlements
In the video "And Man Created Dog" what traits lead to wolves developing a survival advantage around
humans? - correct answer ✔✔Least aggressive, least territorial, most curious
An efficient hunting-gathering mode of subsistence among our men and women ancestors involved -
correct answer ✔✔a division of labor where men provided food from hunting and women provided food
from gathering
In the video "The Beak of the Finch: Speciation of finches on the Galapagos", when evolutionary
biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant quantify dates breeding took place, number of years bred, number
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