Ancient DNA has been extensively used to _________
a. determine the cause of death and identify individuals
b. study the evolution of Homo sapiens
c. examine interbreeding amongst families
d. examine migration patterns and determine the sex of skeletal remains
Correct Answer: d
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Which of the following conditions did NOT contribute to the development of food production in the Middle East?
A. the availability of annual grasses with edible grains B. the diffusion of domesticated animal species from southern Europe C. favorable changes in cultivated grains through artificial selection D. population increase, leading people to try planting grasses in new ecological niches E. the shift to a broad-spectrum subsistence pattern at the end of the Upper Paleolithic
In a study assessing the effects of television on behavior, attitudes, and values, Kottak and a team of researchers found that
A. television exposure has a greater impact on behavior, attitudes, and values in the United States than in Brazil. B. the claim that television exposure affects people's behavior, attitudes, and values is overstated. C. television exposure inevitably leads to a decrease in social interaction, regardless of the culture. D. Brazilians watch telenovelas because they see in these programs the traditions of their culture vividly represented and valued. E. people's ideas about proper family size are influenced as they see, day after day, nuclear families smaller than the traditional ones in their town.
The CP3 honing complex can be used to __________
a. determine the diet of a primate b. determine the age of a primate fossil c. differentiate between a hominin and an ape d. differentiate between the sexes in a hominin species
________ is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions-that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.
A. Ecological imperialism B. Ethnoecology C. Indigenized D. Ecological anthropology E. Essentialism