Define polygyny
What will be an ideal response?
The custom by which one man is allowed to have multiple wives.
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Which of the following best characterizes the study of paleoanthropology?
a. It is the study of the evolution of dinosaurs and how human life was modified due to the presence of large reptiles. b. Paleoanthropologists focus on the reconstruction of the human fossil record through the excavation and analysis of fossil remains. c. Although paleoanthropology is the study of early fossils, it most commonly focuses on how humans culturally adapted to life in diverse environmental regions. d. Paleoanthropology is the study of non-human primates in their natural environments. e. Paleoanthropologists most often work in the field of forensic anthropology so that they can identify fossil material for a wide variety of species.
The development of crop cultivation makes specialization of labor possible because: a. there is little need for more technology. b. group intelligence improves with a cereal-based diet. c. more people can be freed to engage in an activity other than food production since farming is more efficientthan food collecting
d. the extra time generated by more efficient technology allows people to go to school and learn much morecomplex trades. e. the trade that results from all forms of crop cultivation motivates societies to specialize in order to control themarket.
Women’s work on the global network tends to be all of the following except:
a. health services. b. transportation. c. domestic service. d. factory production.
Contemporary market practices encourage the constant transformation of social and political capital into economic capital
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.