Chapter 10 Multiple Choice Quiz
A giraffe stretches its neck and thereby lengthens it, which causes its subsequent offspring to
have longer necks. - ANS-What is an example of soft-inheritance?
Are humans anthropomorphizing when they observe moral behavior in animals? - ANS-What
question best represents the problem of anthropomorphizing, as explained in your text?
Cognitive empathy - ANS-If an ant showed signs of recognizing the distress of another ant but
could not feel that distress, this could be evidence that the ant experienced:
Confer some survival advantage on animals - ANS-If Darwin is right about the origins of morality
in animals, then the development of social instincts and other features of moral behavior would:
Humans have competing biological tendencies toward sociability and unsociability, and natural
selection does not favor one over the other. - ANS-What best represents or illustrates Huxley's
problem?
Hunters spend a lot of time and energy and risk their lives, and then, they share meat with other
members of the tribe. - ANS-In early human societies, hunting appears to be an example of
pure altruism because:
Is present and draws attention to himself - ANS-In Franz de Waal's experiments, Chimp-1
displays pro-social behavior 65 percent of the time when Chimp-2:
Kin altruism - ANS-Biological evolution and natural selection most easily explain what?
Kin selection - ANS-Suppose a mother sacrifices her life for her biological offspring. From a
biological perspective, this would be explained by:
May have some capacity for moral behavior - ANS-The examples of Washoe and Binta Jua
show that animals:
Refuse to groom anyone except those who present themselves for grooming - ANS-According
to Richard Dawkins, Cheaters are those birds that:
Science is about facts, while ethics is about norms. - ANS-Jerry Fodor believes that ethics can't
expect much help from science because:
Sympathy is a natural instinct that humans may have acquired through natural selection. -
ANS-Darwin offers what as an explanation for tribal altruism?
A giraffe stretches its neck and thereby lengthens it, which causes its subsequent offspring to
have longer necks. - ANS-What is an example of soft-inheritance?
Are humans anthropomorphizing when they observe moral behavior in animals? - ANS-What
question best represents the problem of anthropomorphizing, as explained in your text?
Cognitive empathy - ANS-If an ant showed signs of recognizing the distress of another ant but
could not feel that distress, this could be evidence that the ant experienced:
Confer some survival advantage on animals - ANS-If Darwin is right about the origins of morality
in animals, then the development of social instincts and other features of moral behavior would:
Humans have competing biological tendencies toward sociability and unsociability, and natural
selection does not favor one over the other. - ANS-What best represents or illustrates Huxley's
problem?
Hunters spend a lot of time and energy and risk their lives, and then, they share meat with other
members of the tribe. - ANS-In early human societies, hunting appears to be an example of
pure altruism because:
Is present and draws attention to himself - ANS-In Franz de Waal's experiments, Chimp-1
displays pro-social behavior 65 percent of the time when Chimp-2:
Kin altruism - ANS-Biological evolution and natural selection most easily explain what?
Kin selection - ANS-Suppose a mother sacrifices her life for her biological offspring. From a
biological perspective, this would be explained by:
May have some capacity for moral behavior - ANS-The examples of Washoe and Binta Jua
show that animals:
Refuse to groom anyone except those who present themselves for grooming - ANS-According
to Richard Dawkins, Cheaters are those birds that:
Science is about facts, while ethics is about norms. - ANS-Jerry Fodor believes that ethics can't
expect much help from science because:
Sympathy is a natural instinct that humans may have acquired through natural selection. -
ANS-Darwin offers what as an explanation for tribal altruism?
