Why are intensive agriculturalists more likely to face food shortages than horticultural societies?
A) Horticulture is usually more productive than intensive agriculture.
B) Intensive agriculturalists often produce crops for market.
C) Horticulture involves more complex and reliable technology.
D) Intensive agriculturalists usually live in more challenging environments than horticulturalists
B) Intensive agriculturalists often produce crops for market.
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Fission-fusion societies are societies in which:
A. females form one-male harems during part of the year and multimale groups during other times B. males and females form monogamous units during part of the year and exist in multimale troops during other times of the year C. large groups break up into smaller units and smaller units coalesce into larger ones D. animals remain solitary except during the mating season
Platyrrhines are to catarrhines as
A. brachiators are to nonbrachiators. B. New World monkeys are to Old World monkeys. C. terrestrial is to arboreal. D. prosimians are to anthropoids. E. Old World monkeys are to New World monkeys.
An anthropologist who studies the relationship between language and culture is working in the field of ______
a. ethnolinguistics b. descriptive linguistics c. historical linguistics d. sociolinguistics e. glottochronology
Human evolution has occurred in a mosaic fashion as evidenced by first
A) canine reduction and then bipedalism B) brain enlargement and then canine reduction C) brain enlargement and then bipedalism D) bipedalism and then brain enlargement E) none of the above