Define mana, and discuss the difference in the beliefs that surround mana in Melanesia and Polynesia.
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The question of whether modern humans and Neandertals interbred at some point:
a. was never an issue among paleoanthropologists. b. is far from settled and remains an unresolved debate based on dating errors. c. is established based on genetic evidence. d. was called into question with the discoveries at Zhoukoudian. e. cannot be answered because there is no fossilized soft tissue available.
Why does exogamy, the practice of seeking a husband or wife outside one's own kin group, have adaptive value outside of biological concerns?
A. It increases the likelihood that disadvantageous alleles will find phenotypic expression and thus be eliminated from the population. B. It creates new social ties and alliances, providing access to more resources and social networks. C. It impedes peaceful relations among social groups and therefore promotes population expansion. D. It was an important causal factor in the origin of social stratification. E. Exogamy is not adaptive; it is just a cultural construction.
Which of the following characterizes diets such as The Paleo Solution?
a. They are an accurate representation of how human ancestors ate. b. They only represent the human diet during a small segment of time within the course of human evolution. c. They are much better suited for the human body and therefore should be followed by all modern humans. d. They have been shown to be healthier than the modern western diet.
Among the Old World monkeys, the subfamily Colobinae specializes in the eating of:
A. insects B. leaves C. hard fruits D. small mammals and reptiles