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In the human lineage, what evolved first? - ✔✔upright walking
Bipedal locomotion in our early Australopithecus ancestors allowed for: -
✔✔foraging away from the forest trees AND better heat regulation
Based on research, what type of environment is most preferred by humans
at a young age? - ✔✔Savanna
The "Sally-Anne False Belief" test - ✔✔is used by developmental
psychologists as a measure of "theory of mind" capacity
Described in Chapter 2, 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 (i.e., only very recently
in human evolution). In Mithen's view, earlier pre-modern ancestral
humans, although successful hunters, - ✔✔used mind reading only for
other humans but not for other animals
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The spread of humans all over the planet began with - ✔✔a first
migratory wave out of Africa followed by a second wave out of Africa
Humans and wolf-dogs formed a mutualism. Name one benefit of this
symbiotic interrelationship for our human ancestors. - ✔✔companionship
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) - ✔✔Having dogs increases the rate at
which prey animals are encountered, a benefit to the humans.
Dogs decrease the amount of time devoted to hunting, which is a benefit to
the humans.
Dogs play and sleep with the village children, a benefit to the humans.
The Human "Cute Response" likely stems from humans' attraction to -
✔✔Infantile features of babies
In the video "And Man Created Dog" what traits lead to wolves developing
a survival advantage around humans? - ✔✔Least aggressive, least
territorial, most curious