Which of the Following Statements About Female Primate Reproductive Success

question 44

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about female primate reproductive success is NOT supported by the evidence?

• A) The longer a female lives, the more offspring she will likely have.
• B) Past a certain age, female primates stop reproducing, so it does not matter how long they live.
• C) Younger females have less success with raising offspring because the female is not fully grown and continues to demand energy for her own survival that might otherwise be invested in offspring.
• D) Among primates, humans are unusual in that females stop reproducing abruptly when they get older and have a potentially long postreproductive period.

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Definitions:

Population Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a population data set, reflecting how much the members of the population differ from the population mean.

Ratio

A quantitative relationship between two numbers, indicating how many times one value is contained or can contain the other.

Sample Variances

A measure of the variance (spread or variability) within a sample data set.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in hypothesis testing that there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against alternative hypotheses.