Among which group is circumcision the central feature of a boy's rite of passage
into manhood?
a) The Masai people of Kenya.
b) Irish Catholics
c) The Ju/wasi people of Botswana.
d) Japanese.
ANS: A
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Rickets is caused by
a. overexposure to ultraviolet radiation. b. too much vitamin D. c. an insufficient amount of melanin. d. too few melanocytes. e. insufficient amounts of vitamin D.
Match the predominant locomotor pattern to the correct animal:
1. knuckle walking 2. terrestrial quadrupedalism 3. vertical clinging and leaping 4. erect bipedalism 5. brachiation tarsier human baboon chimpanzee siamang
Which of the following is NOT the form of locomotion shown by hominins?
a. Habitual bipedalism b. Obligate bipedalism c. Knuckle walking d. brachiating e. flying
The term heritability refers to:
A) the average phenotypic change between succeeding generations B) those phenotypic traits that are immune to environmental influences C) the degree of similarity between parent and child D) the proportion of a population's total phenotypic variation that is attributable to the effects of the environment E) the proportion of a phenotypic trait's variance that is attributable to genetic variance between individuals