How do anthropologists define "court systems"?
What will be an ideal response?
These are systems in which authority for settling disputes and punishing crimes is formally vested in a single individual or group.
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Cheifdoms
a. are rarely sedentary b. inevitably develop into states c. require elaborate hydraulic systems if they are to grow into states d. are the most common social arrangement of human populations e. were precursors to states, with privileged and effective leaders-chiefs- but lacking the sharp class divisions that characterize states
New alleles are the results of mutations
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The preference for collective violence evident among the Yanomamö is evidence of an innate tendency among men to engage in violence
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One of the main differences between descent groups and nuclear families is that
A. nuclear families are always exogamous, while descent groups are always endogamous. B. nuclear families are found only in industrial societies, while descent groups are found only in foraging societies. C. members of descent groups are called affines, while members of nuclear families are consanguines. D. descent groups are typically not involved with politics, while nuclear families are. E. descent groups are permanent, while nuclear families are not.