Among adult humans, lactose intolerance is __________
a. not very common
b. a highly polymorphic trait
c. nonexistent
d. most common among Europeans
Answer b
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A) is crucial for recovering information about the past. B) cannot be combined with participant observation. C) is avoided by anthropologists because it is a sociological method. D) assures the researcher of getting at the truth. E) is used primarily with nonliterate informants because they can't respond in writing.
In the debate of how speciation occurs, advocates of punctuated equilibrium
A. describe macroevolution as the gradual accumulation of evolutionary changes over time. B. agree with the advocates of intelligent design on views about the flaws in fossil-dating techniques. C. define species the same way creationists and gradualists do. D. have revived Darwin's classic description of change over time. E. suggest that long periods of stability, during which species change little, are interrupted by evolutionary leaps.
Windigo psychosis can be compared to the Euro-American equivalent of:
a. paranoid schizophrenia b. attention deficit disorder c. Turner's syndrome d. ethnic psychosis
Which of the following has a higher cranial capacity?
a. gorillas b. H. habilis c. H. sapiens d. Neandertals