CSULA The Diversity of Human Cultural Warfare & Human Behavior Exam Practice

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1. Marks suggests that the diversity of human cultural forms results from,

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Specific historical processes operating on basically equivalent gene pools

Vastly different gene pools in various human populations

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2. The distinction between heritage and habitus,

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Is a distinction of what is genetic versus what is learned

Is a distinction of what one has inherited, such as the color of ones eyes versus the habits one might get into or drop, such as having a late-night snack

Is a distinction of what is biologically ancient versus what is biologically new

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3. Examples of what is part of our ape ancestry (heritage) and what we have acquired only in the course of becoming human (habitus) are,

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Heritage: grasping hands and rotating shoulders; Habitus: rigid ankles and bare skin

Heritage: the custom to pass down property to the next generation along family lines; Habitus: a love for bananas

Heritage: the ability to read and to form political parties; Habitus: no tail and opposable thumbs

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4. In stories, such as Aesops fables, one often encounters comparisons of other species to human species, such as the wise owl, the the crafty fox, or the industrious ant. The nature of these comparisons is,

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Funny

Metaphorical, symbolic, and association by analogy

Offensive to people, especially to those who think that foxes are the most honest and morally upright fellows around

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5. The nature of a comparison of humans to primates, such as labeling a rhesus monkey much smarter than an owl because its brain is more like a human brain is,

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Homological, and based in commonly shared biology

Unfair to owls

Unscientific

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6. To say that warfare among ants is the same as warfare among humans,

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Disregards all evolutionary differences between ants and humans and suggests that despite all those differences, the species have somehow retained the same warfare

Brings attention to the fact that we do not know whether ants have developed nuclear warheads and may use them some day

Suggests that there will always be war on earth, even if humans should manage to resolve their differences in non-violent ways

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7. Sometimes, we use the same word such as the leg of an ant and the leg of a human or the wing of a fly and the wing of a bird to refer to appendages of different species because,

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These appendages do not share any biological similarities but fulfill the same function

We are lazy

There is a limit to the number of words that can make up a language and once that limit has been reached, existing words have to be reused

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8. Suggesting that a criminal human behavior is natural because it also occurs in other species,

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Shows solidarity with non-human species

Is not morally or ethically neutral because it trivializes the crime

Means that we should incarcerate perpetrators in other species, too, something that would completely destroy our already overburdened prison system

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9. To suggest that rape among humans is the same and occurs for the same reasons as in scorpionflies amounts to,

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A carefully constructed argument with which no fault can be found

Declaring the single over-riding purpose of human sexuality to be reproduction and to imply that all non-reproductive human sexuality is unnatural

Giving scorpionflies a bad reputation

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10. The competing hypotheses of rape-as-reproduction and rape-as-power can be characterized as follows:

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The rape-as-reproduction hypothesis has more adherents than the rape-as-power hypothesis

The rape-as-reproduction hypothesis and the rape-as-power hypothesis are identical

The rape-as-reproduction hypothesis understands rape as human heritage while the rape-as-power hypothesis understands rape as human habitus

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