Define the term "power."

What will be an ideal response?


Power is the ability to make others do what you want based on coercion or legitimate authority.

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The first clear evidence of stone tools appeared more than __________ million years after the appearance of bipedalism.

A) 1 B) 2 C) 4 D) 10

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Rates of alcoholism among the Ju/'hoansi San have increased as a result of wage labor

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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The Karimojong of northeast Uganda use what type of system as the basis of their political organization?

A) age-set association B) ethnic association C) regional organization D) unisex organization

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Why does this chapter on culture include a section that describes similarities and differences between humans and apes, our closest relatives?

A. to emphasize culture's evolutionary basis B. to better define culture as a capacity that distinguishes members of the zoological family hominidae from anatomically modern humans C. to stress that there is no such thing as human nature D. to promote the study of primatology, which has nothing to do with human culture E. to illustrate how evolution is just a theory

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