When She Is Teaching a Class on "Our Human Heritage

question 26

Multiple Choice

When she is teaching a class on "Our human heritage," Prof. Shelbourne, a sociobiologist, is likely to contend that:

• A) evolution has bred into each of us a tendency to act in ways that maximize our chances of passing on our genes.
• B) evolution can explain simple behaviours, such as smiling or recognizing emotions, but it cannot account for complex social customs, such as altruism.
• C) it is simplistic and misleading for researchers to study nonhuman species and argue by analogy that humans have characteristics with similar evolutionary origins.
• D) explanations of infidelity and monogamy are based on stereotypes of gender differences, not the actual behaviour of human beings.

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