Exogamy is a(n):
a. requirement that persons marry outside of their group.
b. rule that establishes where a couple must live following marriage.
c. form of marriage in which a woman marries two or more brothers.
d. ?incest taboo that is common in matrilineal societies.
ANSWER:
a
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Australopithecus ________
a. represents an adaptive radiation that covers southern Africa only b. has definitely been included in the hominin group c. lived from approximately 4.2 to 1 million years ago d. was the first specimen of the genus found by Raymond Dart in the 1920s
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a. Intercropping of corn and squash in parts of Mexico b. The planting of an export crop such as coffee for extra cash in El Salvador c. The planting of fruit trees in fallowed fields in parts of Mexico d. Using birth control among peoples of LDCs
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