What is the role of melanin in skin color?
What will be an ideal response?
Melanin is a dark pigment produced in the outer layer of the skin that protects against damaging ultraviolet solar radiation. The amount of melanin in one's skin contributes greatly to the color.
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In what way do the interconnections among the people of the nations of the world today differ from the interconnections of 50 years ago?
a. Today, the interconnections are between entire continents; in the past interconnections were only local. b. Cultural exchange is much more one-sided today due to the relatively greater power of Western countries compared with others. c. Today, the interconnections between nations and world regions are more intense and take different forms. d. All of these are ways that global interconnections today differ from those of the past.
According to the Transnational Migration and Identity lecture, Haitian, Dominican, and African immigrants do not embrace the “black” or “ African American” identity that is imposed on them by American society
a. true b. false
What is meant by the "feminization of poverty?"
What will be an ideal response?
In situations where there is no environmental circumscription, Carneiro suggests that __________ explains the emergence of states
a. expansion of trade b. unequal distribution of resources across a landscape c. consolidation of chiefly power by one family d. divine right