Males of Many Species Have to Impress the Females with Their

question 13

Multiple Choice

Males of many species have to impress the females with their physical prowess in order to gain sexual access. What attribute makes humans different such that men experience young male syndrome?

• A) IQ
• B) reputation
• C) earlier menstruation
• D) intrasexual competition

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Definitions:

Patrilineal Societies

Societies organized around familial relationships through the male line, where inheritance and descent are traced through the father.

African Burial Ground

A historic site in New York City where the remains of more than 400 Africans were found, revealing details about the life of enslaved and free African Americans in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Sankofa

A word from the Akan language of Ghana that expresses the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress.

Patrilineal Descent

A system of lineage tracing in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through his or her father's line.