Compare and contrast a family and a household

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Both are economic and social units, but a family is two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, whereas a household is simply a unit of one or more people living in the same residence.

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Which of the following regarding Europe by 10,000 B.P. is FALSE?

A. The process of preserving meat and fish by smoking and salting grew increasingly important. B. The continent's coasts and lakes were fished intensively with new technologies such as the characteristic Mesolithic stone blades and microliths used as fishhooks and in harpoons. C. The range of hunting, gathering, and fishing populations extended to the formerly glaciated British Isles and Scandinavia. D. The continent was forest rather than treeless steppe and tundra, as it had been during the Upper Paleolithic. E. As a consequence of the increase in forest species, people increasingly practiced new hunting techniques, mainly solitary stalking and trapping, similar to more recent practices of many Native American groups.

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define sexual dimorphism

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At least 80 percent of the African continent is either Christian or Muslim

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Jane Goodall, a(n) _____, found that chimpanzees use and modify tools for various purposes

a. Archaeologist b. Primatologist c. cultural anthropologist d. Linguist

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