The faculty of language in the narrow sense refers to:

A. the shared communicative capabilities of humans and some nonhumans
B. the characteristics of language that are unique to humans
C. the characteristics of communication found only in apes and humans
D. any ability to communicate


B. the characteristics of language that are unique to humans

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What will be an ideal response?

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An anthropologist is studying ethnic-religious conflict in contemporary Sri Lanka. She or he is most likely a(n)

A. cultural anthropologist. B. linguistic anthropologist. C. paleoanthropologist. D. archeological anthropologist. E. biological anthropologist.

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Why do human femora (thighbones) angle toward each other from the hip to the knee ("knee-in")?

a. The femora are angled so that foot stance of humans can be wider than the pelvis width. b. They structurally orient the body from a wider pelvis to more narrowly spaced feet. c. They shift support of the upper body onto the knees. d. They shift the weight of the upper body onto the arched feet. e. The femora do not angle toward each other? they are vertically straight and the tibia are angled.

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