What are founder effects, and what can result from this?
What will be an ideal response?
Founder effects are a type of genetic drift that occurs when a small founding population, which does not possess all of the alleles present in the original population, breaks off. This can result in speciation.
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Like Mesopotamia and China, many early civilizations came to rely on metallurgy. Aside from metallurgy, a skill that set the early civilizations of Peru's Andes apart was
A. their pottery manufacture techniques. B. the ability to achieve similar metallurgical results without ever discovering smelting, the high-temperature process by which pure metal is produced from ore. C. writing, which originated in this part of the world and not in Sumer as was previously believed. D. trigonometry and advanced astronomy. E. corpse embalming.
The __________ Model of human evolution attributes the origins of modern humans to gene flow and repeated population movements
a. Replacement b. Multiregional c. Upper Paleolithic d. Asian Migration
Independence training is particularly characteristic of rural agrarian societies, where self-reliance and personal achievement are important traits for survival
a. True b. False
Anthropologist Ann Dunham's research in Indonesia showed that:
A) there was a scarcity of capital in the small Indonesian villages; for development projects to succeed, local women needed to be involved in many types of market ventures. B) there was plenty of capital available at the local level, but the men were not interested in pursuing craft initiatives for a livelihood; development projects needed to consider other options. C) development projects had to involve the whole Indonesian family in order for them to succeed because women were subordinate to their husbands. D) craft cooperatives did not yield as much income and economic security as wet rice agriculture; development projects needed to focus on developing better agricultural techniques. E) there is a scarcity of land that prevents women from being involved in development projects.