The fact that, globally, people’s world views change much more rapidly than language is dramatic proof of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
a. True
b. False
ANSWER:
False
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According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," an anthropologist was hired to find out why customers of a utility company failed to reduce energy consumption, despite their claims that they were trying to conserve. He discovered that
a. customers were lying. b. thermostats were faulty. c. meters were faulty. d. fathers turned down thermostats, other family members turned them up.
The 18th-century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus originally divided humans into subspecies based on:
a. immediate ancestry b. geographic location c. skin color d. hair texture
Group selection erroneously explains the nature of natural selection because __________
a. geneticists have been unable to identify an altruism gene b. altruistic groups of animals are more likely to be attacked by predators c. no purely altruistic groups of animals have been identified in nature d. a selfish individual may have greater fitness and pass selfish behavior to its offspring
Ideally, taxonomic classification
a. reflects evolutionary relationships. b. is based on the presence of acquired characteristics. c. is always based solely on between-species behavioral similarities. d. reflects the current geographic distribution of species. e. is only applicable to nonhuman species.