Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists, have spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have:
a. always focused largely on biological relationships.
b. concentrated mainly on small-scale societies where kinship relations tend to be important.
c. always studied fictional relationships and how societies are organized socially and politically.
d. concentrated on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important and affect the individual's ability to survive.
e. have found that kinship is the single most significant factor in social organization in every human society.
b
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a. It is where the vast majority of Old World primate fossils from this period were found. b. It was the only part of the world where any primates have been found. c. It is the site where written records of primate existence were found. d. Archaeologists love to excavate this site due to its beautiful climate. e. Purgatoriids radiated from here.
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a. True b. False
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a. Leslie White b. Franz Boas c. Benjamin Lee Whorf d. Peter Woolfson e. Bill Haviland
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