The Dalits women's movements in India illustrates that even long-established practices can be:
a. challenged.
b. practical.
c. legal.
d. ethical.
e. essential.
a
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During the "hungry time," to what lengths do the Pintupi go in order to nourish weak individuals?
A) They go to government mission stations to get food. B) They begin to slaughter their own animals in order to provide for those in need. C) They feed them blood from stronger and healthier individuals. D) Some stronger members leave their groups in order to work in the cities for money. E) They eat leather and other animal products that are available.
The example of the sickle-cell allele demonstrates a key aspect of evolution through natural selection, in that
A. adaptation and fitness are in relation to the individual organism, not the general population. B. human populations in the tropics are the most susceptible to random changes caused by natural selection. C. natural selection increases the variety in a population upon which subsequent natural selective processes can act. D. adaptation and fitness are in relation to specific environments; traits are not universally adaptive or maladaptive. E. although natural selection usually acts upon the phenotype, it can sometimes act upon the genotype.
The mammalian diversity with which we are familiar today is a product of:
a. preadaptation. b. isothermal radiation. c. adaptive radiation. d. clinal radiation. e. clades.
mtDNA:
A. is inherited solely from the mother. B. does not contain diploid cells. C. is inherited solely from the father. D. determines the sex of the offspring.