Physical anthropologists are interested in human variation today:

a. so that they can explain the fixed characteristics of racial categories.
b. because it allows us an understanding of how humans adapt to the environment.
c. as a way of explaining differences in intelligence and personality.
d. because people are more diverse today than they were in the past.
e. because they wish to better understand human potential and better ways to apply anthropology.


ANS: B

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