Chimpanzee - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSYC 205 Exam Test Bank | Questions and Answers (Complete Solutions) Which of the following statements is most accurate? a) Some examples of animal 'teaching' appear to fit the current operational definition of teaching. b) It is commonly accepted that the current operational definition of 'teaching' captures the key components of human teaching. c) Meerkat 'teaching behavior' includes information regarding how to kill prey. d) Comparative cognition research indicates that 'teaching' i...

Nats 1670 Final Exam What was the life expectancy in the early 1900's? - Under the age of 50, with a 25% child mortality rate. When was the first vaccine created? - 1880 ____________ _____________ can reduce life expectancy dramatically, due to the lack of __________________. - INFECTIOUS DISEASES can reduce life expectancy dramatically, due to the lack of CONTROL. Upon early discover, microbes were viewed as? - Enemies, until used in medicine. What are the beneficial roles of...

Gracile Australopithecines - 3.5-<2mya - A. sediba - A. africanus Possible hominins - 7- 4.4mya Robust hominins - 2.7-1.2mya - Paranthropus robustus - P. boisei - P. aethiopicus Early hominins - 4.2-2.5mya - Australopithecus garhi - A. afarensis - A. anamensis - Kenyanthropus Early Australopithecines Traits - bipeds (but retain some arboreal adaptations) - sexually dimorphic - brain only slightly larger on average than chimpanzee's - 4.2-2.5mya Australopithecus afarensis Traits - 4-3mya...

absorptive heterotroph - An organism (usually a fungus) that obtains its food by secreting digestive enzymes into the environment to break down large food molecules, then absorbing the breakdown products. acidophile - able to live in extremely acidic environments adaptations - inherited aspects of an individual that allow it to outcompete other members of a population that lack the trait; evolve through natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace - came up with a mechanism for evolution simila...

This is a summary for the course “Psychology of Sexuality”! It includes the lectures, all additional information of the exam-relevant book chapters, and a summary of the chimpanzee / bonobo video. 
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DNA BrainPop Questions and Answers Graded A+ All _____ have DNA. living organisms The term "double helix" refers to: The shape of a DNA molecule How is DNA similar to a fingerprint? Both are unique to each individual DNA can best be compared to a building's: blueprint Which part of the term "deoxyribonucleic acid" indicates where DNA is located? nucleic There are ___________ of different kinds of proteins in the human body. Thousands The function of _____ is not enti...

What monkeys are meat eaters and true hunters? - ANSWERChimpanzees Characteristics of chimpanzees when hunting? - ANSWER-They hunt in groups -High level of cooperation among hunters -Do not use tools to kill or to butcher prey -Meat is a richer package of protein and animal fat than most anything else chimpanzees can find in their habitat -Hunting is done by males working together -Meat is used as a form of social currency and to acquire reproductive gains Chimpanzee-human hunting sim...

physical anthropology - Answer-fossil remains of human ancestors linguistic anthropology - Answer-patterns of speech in different social situations archaeology - Answer-material remains left behind by humans (e.g. arrowheads) cultural anthropology - Answer-interactions between different residents of the same neighborhood paleoanthropology - Answer-comparing fossilized 200,000-year-old primate remains to modern human anatomy historic archaeology - Answer-cataloguing artifacts disco...

ASM 246 Arizona State University -ASM 246: Final Study Guide verified already passedThe first Australopithecus afarensis fossil found at Hadar was which of the following? - correct answer a knee joint The Australopithecus afarensis fossil known as "Lucy" is which of the following? - correct answer 3.2 million years old The hominid footprints at Laetoli preserve evidence of which of the following? - correct answer A human like foot adapted to bipedalism An imprint of the brain case, su...

ASM 246 Arizona State University -ASM 246 Final Exam PrepTrue or false? Although it has a smaller birth canal and more flaring blades, Lucy's pelvis is more similar to a human pelvis than to a chimpanzee pelvis. - correct answer true When Professor Johanson and his team were working in Ethiopia in the 1970's, they discovered the remains of Lucy at which of the following sites in the Afar Triangle? a. Allia Bay b. Olduvai Gorge c. Hadar d. Laetoli - correct answer Hadar Hadar was prim...