The woman-woman marriage custom found in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with all of the following except:
a. enables a woman without sons to inherit a share of her husband's property.
b. confers legitimacy on the children of a woman who had been unable to find a husband.
c. enables the woman who adopts a male identity to raise her status.
d. enables the woman who is the wife of the female husband to raise her status and live a more secure life.
e. enables the women to engage in sexual activity with each other.
e
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According to the definition in your text, an ethnic group is:
a. a minority within a multicultural state. b. a social category defined by race. c. a group of individuals who identify as a people with shared social experience or ancestry. d. non-existent, just like race.
Which of the following is NOT a correct claim about the 18th century Swedish botanist Linnaeus??
a. He avoided a European bias while classifying humans.
b. He wrote the System of Nature.
c. He divided humans into four varieties by skin color.
d. He divided humans by temperament.
e. He showed a clear European bias in his works.
Lovejoy's male provisioning scenario
a. is now the best supported explanation for the evolution of bipedalism. b. has not been significantly critiqued by paleoanthropologists. c. is entirely consistent with the hominid fossil record. d. is entirely consistent with the archaeological record. e. assumes that males were paired monogamously with females.