A) allocate investment to many offspring.
B) use complex behavior to acquire or access hard-to-find or extracted food.
C) enter into reciprocal relationships with conspecifics.
D) understand how dominance influences access to food.
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A) a standardized measurement of cognition.
B) absolute forebrain size.
C) absolute neocortex size.
D) a standardized measure of group size.
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A) The arboreal hypothesis
B) The social intelligence hypothesis
C) The ecological hypothesis
D) The executive brain hypothesis
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A) natural selection.
B) associative learning.
C) imitation.
D) deception.
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A) fits the social intelligence hypothesis very well.
B) includes tool use and foraging on foods that are difficult to process.
C) requires living in large groups.
D) is more socially complex than monkeys.
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A) tool use.
B) activity pattern.
C) the extent of leaves in the diet.
D) group size.
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A) A female relative.
B) A subordinate male.
C) A dominant male.
D) None; you are on your own.
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A) Because genes eventually mutate and grow old, so the elderly must perish to increase group fitness
B) Because natural selection favors young alleles for reproduction
C) Because individual fitness is determined early in life
D) Because genes that enhance early fertility at the cost of a shortened life span increase individual fitness
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A) males can recognize their offsprings' vocalizations.
B) mothers recognize the call of their own offspring and one another's offspring.
C) offspring recognize the calls of their mothers.
D) all group members respond to calls of juveniles.
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A) ecological knowledge.
B) a theory of mind.
C) associative learning.
D) a large neocortex.
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A) physical cognition.
B) social cognition.
C) the ecological world.
D) morphological characteristics.
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A) they increase the length of the reproductive life span.
B) they increase generation time.
C) they result in a juvenile stage.
D) they give offspring a longer learning period.
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A) have knowledge of the nature of relationships among other individuals.
B) live in a large group.
C) be able to predict food distribution in an environment.
D) understand the reproductive rates of other primates.
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A) Memory
B) Imprinting
C) Social cognition
D) Physical cognition
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A) neocortex.
B) executive brain.
C) brain stem.
D) hippocampus.
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A) deception during aggressive episodes to deflect an aggressor toward another individual.
B) turning received aggression back onto an aggressor.
C) responding to a threat by attacking a lower-ranking individual who was not involved in the original incident.
D) an ability only humans have.
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