Humans are unusual among mammals in our __________
A) long post-reproductive life span for females
B) close connections between mothers and their infants
C) high lifetime reproductive rates in males
D) tendency to live in social groups of unrelated adults
A
You might also like to view...
Which of the following illustrates the way anthropology embraces the social sciences as well as the humanities?
A. a study concerned with the cultural context of Bedouin poetry B. an excavation of a seventeenth-century colonial burial ground C. an investigation of the way people change which language they speak according to social context D. research into the economic effects of migration in Asia
Studies of the sources of stone for tools has suggested that Neandertals were far more mobile than early modern humans
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following leads groups of related people or kin networks to worship their own particular deity?
a. secret societies
b. polytheism
c. totemism
d. animism
In Samoan villages, parents do not use "baby talk" with infants, and they expect children to run simple errands when needed. These practices are BEST described as part of the Samoan system of
enculturation. agency. ethnocentrism. symbols.