Variety within a population is the only necessary condition for natural selection to operate
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
FALSE
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Those who believe that agricultural economies led to the origin of the state argue that
A. irrigation began in China and spread along ancient trade routes. B. states were the by-products of the organizational requirements of large irrigation systems. C. irrigation systems favored democracy. D. irrigation provided the advantage that allowed H. sapiens to displace the Neandertals. E. Mesolithic states developed so that they could build irrigation systems.
A prehensile tail is found exclusively among:
A. apes B. Old World monkeys C. New World monkeys D. prosimians and tarsiers
By assuming that the treatment of people in death reflects their status and roles in life, the data from more than 3000 burials at Moundville indicates that
a. Moundville society was egalitarian. b. Moundville society was ranked, most likely a chiefdom. c. house structures as well as burials were unrelated to the status of people at Moundville. d. Moundville society was matrilineal; females were buried with many more grave goods than males. e. Moundville males were more brutish than females.
Anthropologists use a classification system for the amount of inequality in a society, developed by Morton Fried. In this system a. the categories refer to all types of inequality, including that based on gender, age and ethnicity. b. the categories are more points along a continuum; most societies fit somewhere between these specificpoints
c. the categories are caste, class, and egalitarian. d. All of these are true of Fried's classification scheme.