Altruism is a behavior that
a. benefits another while involving some risk to the performer
b. benefits the performer while involving risk to another individual
c. benefits both the performer and another individual while involving risk to both
d. is not common among primates
e. creates potential risk to dependent offspring
a
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A. mitochondria. B. Golgi bodies. C. nucleoli. D. nucleus.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of:
a. How the social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories. b. The infallibility of science. c. How more civilized cultures (the Moundbuilders) can be destroyed by less civilized cultures (the Native Americans). d. How pseudoarchaeology can be useful to professional archaeologists. e. How to provide ourselves with an innate sense of superiority and right to dispossess Native Americans today.
Among primates only hominids hunt large animals
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Sign languages such as American Sign Language and German Sign Language
a. use the same gestures and patterns of gesture. b. are complex gestural systems. c. are natural languages with the same structural complexity as spoken language. d. have been shown to be lexically impoverished, and lack any linguistic community.