People who cross over or occupy an intermediate position in the binary male-female gender construction are called:
a. transsexuals.
b. intersexuals.
c. transgenders.
d. eunuchs.
e. third genders.
ANSWER: c
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a. Hadar. b. Laetoli. c. Olduvai Gorge. d. Aramis. e. West Turkana.
Cladistic classifications and phylogenetic classifications:
A) are both based on evolutionary relationships B) consider the unique traits of organisms C) sort organisms based on their primitive and derived traits D) differ in their rules about the weight (equal or unequal) given to different traits E) all of the above
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a. arbitrariness. b. displacement. c. grammar. d. discrete and recombinable elements.