What traits do elephants have in common with primates?
What traits do octopus have in common with primates?
What important primate traits do elephants lack?
What importants primate traits do octopus lack?
It is known that roughly 2/3 of all human beings have a dominant
right foot or eye. Is there also right-sided dominance in kissing
behavior? An article reported that in a random sample of 112
kissing couples, both people in 70 of the couples tended to lean
more to the right than to the left. (Use α = 0.05.)
(a) If 2/3 of all kissing couples exhibit this right-leaning
behavior, what is the probability that the number in a sample...
Parasitic plants have lost many of the morphological and generic
traits necessary for an autotrophic lifestyle. From an evolutionary
point of view, how do you think this happened?
Is it possible for corporations to have religious beliefs, or
can only human beings have such beliefs? If corporations can be
said to have religious beliefs, are those beliefs the same as the
beliefs of the owners? What if there is not a single owner, but a
number of different stockholders? What about the religious beliefs
of the managers or employees—are they relevant to determining what
the corporation believes?
Socrates believed that human beings have a non-material dimension
to them ( the human psyche), which gives them the ability to
escsape the limits of human emotion and social programming, and
gives them the power to catch at least a “glimpse” of THE TRUTH.
Socrates makes no “argument” that the psyche (often translated as
“the soul”) exists. Later on, his most famous student, Plato, will
attempt to do this. But Socrates tends to merely “assume” the
existence of the human...
Describe the different motivations or needs that human beings
experience and the effects on psychosocial behavior.
Explain the function of emotions and how they are experienced in
humans according to the theories of James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, and
Schachter-Singer.
1. What foot traits and corresponding functions seen in other
primates have we lost in our feet? Why would we have lost helpful
features such as this?
2. Based on what we know of their physical and cultural
traits, how were Neandertals adapted for their life in Ice Age
Europe? Did early humans in Europe have these same adaptations? How
might these adaptations relate to the extinction of the Neandertals
and the continuation of humans? (Hint: Is is possible to...
Study Questions
Why would organisms lose obviously advantageous traits? For
example, primates have a greatly reduced olfactory system compared
to their ancient ancestors, even though a keen sense of smell is an
obviously advantageous trait under almost any condition. Why would
evolutionary processes select against such traits? Why would we not
retain them even if they were not absolutely necessary for our
survival?
How is behaviour affected by evolutionary processes? Can
behaviour still be subject to natural selection if it...
Employee rights have become one of the more important
human resource issues. Discuss
Almost all HRM activities are tied to job analysis; it
is the starting point for sound HRM. Discuss