Why Was the Development of Language So Important to Modern

question 53

Multiple Choice

Why was the development of language so important to modern humans?

• A) It allowed modern humans to write histories of their origin for later humans such as ourselves.
• B) It allowed modern humans to transmit culture, information, and other things more easily and more widely.
• C) It allowed modern humans to communicate with archaic human species such as Neanderthals.

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Definitions:

Rejection Region

The range of values for which the null hypothesis is considered unlikely and is therefore rejected in hypothesis testing.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test is a non-parametric statistical test used to compare two independent samples to assess if their population mean ranks differ.

Population Distributions

Represents the spread of values, or observations, of a particular variable across an entire population.

Nonparametric Tests

Statistical tests that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, used for analyzing ordinal or nominal data with unknown parameters.