What term refers to the minimal sound contrasts that distinguish meaning in a language?
A. Morphemes
B. Phonemes
C. Syntax
D. Grammar
E. Diglossia
B. Phonemes
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More than 1.1 billion people worldwide are overweight
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Thomas Malthus
a. proposed that population size is kept in check by the limited availability of resources. b. wrote the theory of catastrophism. c. wrote the theory of uniformitarianism. d. had no influence on the development of Darwin's and Wallace's theories of natural selection. e. was a sixteenth-century mathematician.
Which of these provides an example of analogies?
A. five-digited hands and feet among baboons and macaques B. similarities in chromosomal DNA between apes and humans C. porpoise fins and fish fins D. bony eye sockets in chimps and gorillas E. the mammary glands of dogs and cats
In the study of inequality, how do anthropologists use the term ideology?
a. Beliefs that explain inequality as desirable or legitimate b. Any set of ideas held by group c. A radical perspective on any social issue d. Ideas that challenge the status quo in terms of social inequality