Who talks more on average: men or women?
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Men and women talk roughly the same amount.
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Men talk more.
When and where did the gene for lactase persistence evolve?
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Northern Europe, 8000 years ago.
Did humans evolve from apes?
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No
Why did the Neanderthals die out?
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They were killed or outcompeted by early modern humans.
How long ago did Neanderthals die out?
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28,000 years ago.
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30,000 years ago.
Are diamonds made from coal?
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Yes
Was Edith Wilson actually acting as President during Woodrow Wilson's post-stroke convalescence?
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No.
Did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?
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Yes
How old are the oldest rocks geologists have been able to find?
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4.1 billion years
True or False? "The human species has stopped evolving."
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False
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True
True or False? "European Jews have a genetic advantage in intelligence. "
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True
Was Jimmy Carter a good president?
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Jimmy Carter was a good President
Is the Nation of Islam a Muslim group?
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No
How big was the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs?
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10 km (6 miles) in diameter
Has evolution ever been observed?
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Yes, evolution has been observed.
How much larger is the male brain than the female brain?
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8%
Did humans evolve from monkeys?
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No
Is the corpus callosum larger and better developed in women than in men?
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Yes, women have a larger corpus callosum.
Why did the dinosaurs die out?
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The dinosaurs died out because of a single meteorite or asteroid impact.
When was the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees?
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6 million years ago
NOVA | Becoming Human Part 1
First Steps: Six million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human?
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7 million years ago
Who was the greatest scientist ever?
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Isaac Newton
True or False? "Humans interbred with Neanderthals and the gene pools merged."
When did polar bears first appear?
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125,000 years ago
True or False? "Galapagos finches have been observed to evolve larger beaks in response to drought."
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True
Are birds descended from dinosaurs?
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Yes
Has the Theory of Evolution been disproved?
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No
Did Thomas Jefferson father a child with his slave, Sally Hemings?
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Yes
Is it possible to reconcile Christianity and evolution?
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No
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Yes
Does the fossil record contain intermediate (transitional) forms?
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Yes.
Should Intelligent Design be taught in science classes?
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No
Does intelligent design make falsifiable claims?
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No
Is all life on Earth descended from a single common ancestor?
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Yes
Does Islam endorse killing infidels?
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Yes.
How long ago did Homo sapiens evolve?
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100,000 years ago
Have Intelligent Design advocates published ID articles in peer-reviewed journals?
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No
How old is the "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis) fossilized skeleton?
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3.2 million years
Is there evidence that supports Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
Did humans evolve from other animals?
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Yes
Evolution: Frequently Asked Questions
Humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees.
Humans evolved through the same biological processes that govern the evolution of all life on Earth.
Evolution describes the change over time of all living things from a single common ancestor.
Shortly thereafter, the species diverged into two separate lineages.
Evolution: Frequently Asked Questions
Rather, humans and apes share a common ancestor that gave rise to both.
How old is the Earth?
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4.5 billion years old.
How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
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5 to 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
Is there significant debate among scientists about the theory of evolution?
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No.
Did the Catholic Church imprison Galileo for his beliefs?
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Yes
Did cetaceans (whales and dolphins) evolve from land mammals?
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Yes
How old is life on earth?
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3.8 billion years old
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4 billion years old
True or False? "Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design are scientific."
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False
Which of the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 (as opposed to later)?
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No one signed on July 4.
Each day, how many Americans are homeless?
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700,000 people
True or False? "The Theory of Evolution is a scientific fact."
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True
Does the Bible say that homosexuals should be killed?
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Yes
Is evolution a random process?
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No
True or False? "Birds are really a kind of dinosaur."
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True
Did Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest found the Ku Klux Klan?
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No
True or False? "With increasingly rare exceptions, survival in the West no longer depends on a person's genes."
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True
Why has natural selection favored blue eyes?
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No one knows.
True or False? "A single mutation in the HERC2 gene may be responsible for the blue eyes of all the estimated 300 million people who have them. "
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True
True or False? "The gene for blue eyes arose in a single individual who lived near the Black Sea 6,000 to 10,000 years ago."
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True
True or False? "Differences in human skin color are primarily due to sunlight's role in vitamin production."
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True
True or False? "But criminologists are uncertain how many times Americans successfully use a gun to ward off attacks; estimates of defensive gun uses range from less than 100,000 a year to more than two million."
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True
True or False? "A hormonal/chemical wash (estrogen for girls, testosterone for boys) actually enhances certain parts of the brain and changes them structurally before birth."
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True
True or False? "One out of 50—or about 1.5 million—American children are homeless each year."
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True
True or False? "A species, then, is defined by science as a group of interbreeding or potentially interbreeding populations that is reproductively isolated from other such groups."
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True
Is race a purely social construction, or does it have a biological basis?
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Race is a purely social construction.
True or False? "There is more evidence for creation than there is for evolution."
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True