Which of the following was NOT one of the trends that distinguished anthropoids from other primates?
A. a shift from reliance on smell to reliance on sight
B. improved stereoscopic and color vision
C. increased reliance on smell
D. a tendency toward being active during the day
E. none of these; all were part of anthropoid evolution
Answer: C
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A. are shamanistic religions that reject the encroachment of capitalism and modernity. B. reject the material world and focus on the body's internal biological balance. C. are a recent historical phenomenon. D. tend to reject the natural—the mundane, ordinary, material, secular—world and focus instead on a higher realm of reality. E. focus on the effects that heavenly bodies such as the moon, sun, and Mars have on social life.
Which of the following statements about medical anthropology is TRUE?
A. Typically in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, this field does market research on the use of health products around the world. B. This field applies Western medicine to solving health problems around the world. C. This growing field considers the biocultural context and implications of disease and illness. D. It is the field that proved that people from rural areas suffer only from illnesses and not diseases. E. It applies non-Western health knowledge to a troubled industrialized medical system.
An ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
There is one language spoken by the majority of the world's people
Indicate whether the statement is true or false