The approach taken in this course to understand the complexity of our relationships to non-human
animals ... - correct answer ✔✔is based on scientific evidence, is multi-disciplinary, and examines how
these relationships have developed over time, geographic region, and cultural contexts.
In many non-Western cultures, non-human animals are... - correct answer ✔✔incorporated into their
spiritual or religious beliefs
There are 3 common types of symbioses - correct answer ✔✔mutualism, comensalism, parasitisim
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
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
Use of fire was an important development because it allowed our ancestors - correct answer ✔✔to cook
meat for easier digestion
The "savanna hypothesis" posits that - correct answer ✔✔humans evolved a preference for savanna-like
landscapes
The "Sally Anne" False Belief test - correct answer ✔✔is a measure of a high level of cognitive empathy,
is easily mastered by older children, involves two child characters names Sally and Anne, and is used by
developmental psychologists as a measure of "theory of mind" capacity
The available genetic evidence indicates that modern dogs evolved from - correct answer ✔✔Lec8. out
of africa & dogs
, 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
Evidence that suggests an early mutualism between humans and dogs includes - correct answer
✔✔"wolf-dog" skeletons were found at mammoth megasites where humans killed and butchered
mammoth (but did not butcher the dogs),
child footprints and "wolf-dog" paw prints were found together in Chauvet cave, humans and dogs are
rarely depicted in cave art, suggesting they were in the same symbolic category as kin (ALL CHOICES
CORRECT)
According to research on hunter-gatherer cultures today, which of the following would NOT be a reason
for a hunter-gatherer family to keep dogs? - correct answer ✔✔Dogs serve as pets and play companions
for children in the family
The Human "Cute Response" likely stems from humans' attraction to - correct answer ✔✔Infantile
features of babies
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 ancestors involved - correct answer ✔✔a
sexual division of labor where men provided food from hunting and women provided food from
gathering
Who developed the idea of Evolution by Natural Selection? - correct answer ✔✔Darwin and Wallace
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
of offspring, and how many offspring survived to sexual maturity, they are: - correct answer
✔✔Analyzing evolutionary fitness
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