Charles Darwin's the Descent of Man

question 66

Multiple Choice

Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man

• A)is filled with expressions of doubt and hesitancy over the new evolutionary theories.
• B)proposed the first theory of genetic mutations.
• C)argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time.
• D)placed humans in the center of a rational universe.
• E)predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of how much values in a data set differ from the mean of the set.

Cohen's D

Cohen's d is a statistic used to quantify the difference between two means, measured in standard deviations.

Cohen's D

A measure of effect size indicating the standardized difference between two means.

Standard Deviation Units

Units measured in terms of the number of standard deviations away from the mean of the distribution.