Post Test L1 Flashcards
There has been a long-standing debate on whether humans and other animals inherit their behavioral responses or acquire them through learning. This is called the ______________ debate.
Nature-Nurture
The condition that can result from damage to the right parietal lobe and typically involves a lack of awareness of one’s own body parts (most commonly on the left side) is known as _____________________ .
Asomatognosia
Darwin proposed that the striking similarities among living species were evidence that they shared a common ____________________ .
Ancestors
Through selective _____________ programs, major changes have been made to domestic animals and plants.
Breeding
In some species, the ______________ male is likely to copulate more and, therefore, pass on his genes to the future generations.
Dominant
One distinctive feature of early Homo species was that they had brains ______________ than Australopithecus but ______________ than modern humans.
Larger, smaller
Incidental nonadaptive evolutionary by-products such as the belly button are called _____________________ .
Spandrels
During the course of the vertebrate evolution, birds emerged approximately ______________ years ago.
160 million
The overall human brain size does not predict ______________ .
intelligence
Over millions of years, there has been a remarkable increase in the surface area of the _____________________ , the outermost layer of the cerebral tissue in humans.
Cerebral Cortex
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that male–female _____________________ during copulation ensures that the offspring will survive, reproduce, and pass on their genes to the next generation.
bonding
______________ structures are similar because of convergent evolution
Analogous
