Why did Jared Diamond call contemporary food foragers "walking encyclopedias"?
What will be an ideal response?
He called them this because they have such detailed and intimate knowledge of their environment.
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Language provides a model for describing and analyzing a culture’s classification of reality
a. True b. False
What feature of intonation is generally considered to be more masculine?
A noticeable shifts in volume B a wide range of pitches C a narrow range of pitches D frequent shifts in velocity E Both A and B
The study of human variation on the molecular level has shown that:
A. there is more variation within geographically separated human populations than between them B. there is more variation between geographically separated human populations than within them C. different human populations can be assigned to different subspecies D. both there is more variation between geographically separated human populations than within them and different human populations can be assigned to different subspecies
The roots of linguistics, the modern scientific study of language, go back a long way to the works of ancient grammarians in _____, more than 2,000 years ago
a. South Asia b. Central Asia c. North Africa d. Australia e. Scandinavia