What are the main taxonomic categories of the primates? What are some of the distinguishing features of each category?

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Within the Jie tribe of Africa, bridewealth payments are very high and tend to result in unstable and difficult marriages

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Applied anthropologist Paul Farmer is associated with all of the following except:

a. he formed the medical group Partners in Health in Haiti. b. he established a clinic in Haiti to help deal with infectious disease. c. he focused his health work in Haiti on AIDS and tuberculosis. d. he works also in Jamaica to treat refugees from war-torn areas of Central America. e. he maintains an active practice in infectious diseases in the United States.

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Which of the following represents a basic approach to naming species in the fossil record?

a. lumping b. arborealism c. bipedalism d. cloning

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When a person possesses two different alleles at the same locus, and both alleles are expressed in the phenotype, this is called

a. recessiveness. b. codominance. c. dominance. d. homozygosity. e. X-linkage.

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