Why are stone tools important for reconstructing the human past?
a. They are the aspect of culture most often preserved.
b. They represent the most important part of culture.
c. They define the home range.
d. Tool use is a unique to hominins.
e. They are always manufactured.
a
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Gene flow refers to:
A. the tendency of a gene to gradually move (flow) from one position on a chromosome to another B. people migrating to a new geographic area C. the process by which alleles from one gene pool move into another gene pool D. the movement of people across oceans or other large bodies of water
Today, approximately what percentage of the world's population subsists through foraging as a primary mode of subsistence?
a. 4 b. 0.4 c. 0.04 d. 0.004
Unstructured interviews:
a. seldom provide useful or accurate data because they interviewer does not provide questions. b. should only be used at the end of one’s fieldwork. c. contain open-ended questions and are paced by the interviewees and not the interviewer. d. are all very short in duration because they never cover major topics. e. always involve at least three individuals.
Compared to primitive traits, derived traits tend to be:
A) shared only by distant evolutionary relatives B) ancient evolutionary developments C) more efficient D) widely shared among many different species E) recently evolved characteristics shared by a few closely related species