What distinction do Gezon and Kottak draw between culture and society?
A. Culture is the result of higher education, whereas society is shared by all people.
B. People share society?organized life in groups?with other animals, but culture is distinctly human.
C. Culture is genetically programmed, whereas society is transmitted through social learning.
D. People attain culture through international travel but society is the social environment of their native land.
E. Society rests more upon certain features of human biology than culture does.
B. People share society?organized life in groups?with other animals, but culture is distinctly human.
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A geological event that is important to the understanding of hominoid evolution is the:
A. movement of South America away from Africa, making the Atlantic Ocean wider than it was B. movement of the Indian subcontinent into southern Asia, creating the Himalayan mountains C. movement of the Afro-Arabian plate into the Asian plate, creating a land bridge between Africa and Asia D. drying up of the Mediterranean Sea during the Miocene, permitting the free exchange of African and European fauna
In patrilineal descent groups, women bear children for their husband’s lineage and are __________ members of their own descent group
a. the prime b. important c. secondary d. temporary
Which of the following statements about language change is FALSE?
a. Language is constantly changing. b. Linguistic borrowing occurs because of both need and prestige. c. The study of language change over time is an example of synchronic analysis. d. Historical linguists are interested in studying how a language changes over time. e. Changes in the meanings of words reflect changes in cultural values in the society.
The Denisovans are significant in that they represent __________
A. an isolated Neandertal community B. the first people to practice religious rituals C. the longest continuous population of Homo erectus outside of Africa D. a hominin species that existed at the same time as both Neandertals and modern humans