In the caste system of India, failure to adhere to class endogamy rules traditionally resulted in a ritually impure union
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: True
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This chapter describes the case of giraffes' long necks to illustrate how natural selection works on variety within a population. This explanation contrasts with the incorrect alternative of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, which suggests that
A. a need for a longer neck activates the long-neck gene throughout development. B. the presence of variety among a population works against the advantages of natural selection. C. in each generation, individual giraffes strain their necks to reach food just a bit higher, and that this straining somehow modifies their genetic material. D. natural selection works on the genotype, not the phenotype. E. in each generation, individual giraffes mate with giraffes having longer necks because they are better at getting food, and their offspring's neck size results in an average of the parents' neck sizes.
The presumed evolutionary link between theropod dinosaurs and birds is based on
a. island dwarfing phenomenon. b. general analogous characteristics. c. a few shared ancestral characteristics. d. derived (modified) characteristics such as the presence of feathers in both lineages. e. evidence of hybridization between the two.
What are the primary benefits of cross-cousin marriage?
What will be an ideal response?
Free trade is one part of which economic perspective?
A) Command economy? B) ?Keynesianism C) ?Neoliberalism D) ?Capitalization