A small matrilineal group that traces descent from a woman who lived only four or five generations earlier has ____ a larger group tracing descent from a woman who lived ten generations earlier
a. less genealogical depth than
b. greater genealogical depth than
c. the same amount of genealogical depth as
d. the same number of generations as
ANSWER:
a
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a. It motivates anthropologists to recognize the objective truth in situations. b. It implies there are universal meanings for all cultural phenomena. c. It suggests that humans do not all perceive and interpret the world in the same ways. d. None of these; this is not a particularly useful concept within anthropology.
A(n) __________ is most likely to participate in a police investigation
a. primatologist b. osteologist c. paleoanthropologist d. forensic anthropologist
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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