Give examples of variations in cultural attitudes concerning male and female attractiveness
What will be an ideal response?
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Some examples include Burmese women elongating their necks with brass rings, Chinese foot binding, scarification, tattooing, ear piercing. Some men in New Guinea put bones through their noses.
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What is the study of biological anthropology?
What will be an ideal response?
Cross-cultural research shows that, universally, __________
A) married women and married men both consider extramarital sex inappropriate B) married women, but not married men, consider extramarital sex inappropriate C) married men, but not married women, consider extramarital sex inappropriate D) neither married men nor married women consider extramarital sex inappropriate
Mammals are different from reptiles in all of the following ways except:
a. mammals tend to be more active than reptiles. b. mammals are homeotherms. c. mammals tend to have limbs beneath the body and not out to the sides. d. mammals are k-selected. e. mammals have pointed, peg-like teeth.
Noam Chomsky, in an oft-quoted saying that reveals the common relationship between language and power, says that "a dialect is a language without a(an) . . ."
a. army b. weapon c. government d. monarchy