Recent genetic evidence confirms that some interbreeding took place between Neandertals and H. sapiens sometime between 80,000 and 50,000
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Besides animism-and sometimes coexisting with it in the same society-there is a view of the supernatural as a domain of raw impersonal power, or force, that people can control under certain conditions. This conception of the supernatural is particularly prominent in Melanesia. Melanesians refer to this force as
A. good (or bad) luck. B. mana. C. magic. D. The Force. E. taboo.
Who focused on religion's explanatory role and argued that religion would eventually disappear as science provided better explanations?
A. Margaret Mead B. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor C. Bronislaw Malinowski D. Claude Lévi-Strauss E. Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard
How did the first states come to be formed? What kinds of societies evolved into states? What factors played important roles in the rise of the first states?
What will be an ideal response?
One of the problems with efforts at development based on recreating the historical experience of the wealthy nations is that:
a. They generally fail to consider the biologically based differences among human beings. b. They often fail to consider that much of the wealth of the industrialized nations was based on exploiting the poor nations. c. They assume that people are motivated solely by the pursuit of wealth and that education is not necessary to development. d. They fail to understand the true extent of poverty in the world's poorest nations. e. They assume that there is no connection between development programs and the political objectives of the wealthy nations.