The dry land that connected Australia and Tasmania is known as Beringia.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
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In nonindustrial societies, the most common way of meeting needs such as resource allocation, law enforcement, and societal functions is through the:
a. clan system b. political system c. religious system d. kinship system
Bioarchaeologists may look at the age, sex, and distribution of grave goods in a prehistoric cemetery to describe patterns of __________ in the past
a. disease b. lifestyle change c. criminal behavior d. disease incidence
Which theory suggests that the incest taboo was created to ensure that individuals would marry members of other families, thereby creating ties that held communities together?
A) Westermarck's childhood-familiarity theory B) Malinowski's family-disruption theory C) White and Lévi-Strauss’s cooperation theory D) Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
In understanding the problems with attempts at human racial classification, why is it important to know the difference between genotype and phenotype?
A. The phenotypic traits typically used to classify humans into races go together as genetic units. B. Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis. C. Although phenotypic characteristics may change, the genetic material of populations stays the same for a long time. D. Attempts at human racial classification have typically used genotypic traits like blood type as markers of common ancestry, and these traits are passed on from generation to generation in discrete bundles. E. Attempts at human racial classification have typically used phenotypic traits like skin color as markers of common ancestry, but many such traits do not reflect shared genetic material. Instead, they are often the result of different populations biologically adapting to similar environmental stressors in similar ways.