4. There is a Research Paper Assignment in this course that constitutes a large chunk of your overall grade.

7. There is a course schedule inside the syllabus where your professor lists a detailed schedule of what will be happening every session of the semester along with all of your due dates and exam dates.

“Race is far from being the only significant marker of group difference—class, gender, sexuality, religion, and citizenship status all matter greatly in the United States.” Who is the author of this statement?

Choose 1 of the following to answer (DO NOT ANSWER BOTH):  List 3 characteristics of modern birds and specifically explain how those characteristics adapt birds for flight. List 3 differences between the skeletons of mammals compared to amphibians and specifically explain how those characteristics are adaptive.

“With us, an entire sex lives in a relation of economic dependence upon the other sex, and the economic relation is combined with the sex-relation. The economic status of the human female is relative to the sex-relation.” Who is the author of this statement?

“It is a well-known fact that economic crises have an aggravating effect on the suicidal tendency.” Who is the author of this statement?

“The prevalence of repressive needs is an accomplished fact, accepted in ignorance and defeat, but a fact that must be undone in the interest of the happy individual as well as all those whose misery is the price of his satisfaction.” Who is the author of this statement?

“But the facing of so vast a prejudice could not but bring the inevitable self-questioning, self-disparagement, and lowering of ideals which ever accompany repression and breed in an atmosphere of contempt and hate.” Who is the author of this statement?

“Whereas, in other species of animals, male and female alike graze and browse, hunt and kill, climb, swim, dig, run, and fly for their livings, in our species the female does not seek her own living in the specific activities of our race, but is fed by the male.” Who is the author of this statement?

Briefly explain why it is unlikely that endothermy could evolve in animals that get their O2 from water. How can this account for whales?