What are the six indicators of the corporate nature of unilineal descent groups?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Unilineal descent groups tend to shape a person’s identity, regulate marriage, regulate property, function politically, have their own set of religious deities, and influence the criminal justice system.
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a. trading spices from distant areas with local sedentary populations b. raiding local sedentary populations c. intermarrying with local sedentary populations d. working for wages in cities
Biocultural anthropologists study __________
a. hominin evolution b. the relationship of the skeleton with its surrounding tissue c. human variation d. the interplay of biological and cultural factors
Paleoanthropologists disagree about our ancestors, but they do agree that __________.
A) there were at least two separate hominin lines between 3 million and 1 million years ago. B) there were no extinctions of any early species. C) evolution could not have played a role in speciation. D) there is enough evidence to be certain of any conclusions they now draw.
Which primate locomotor pattern puts an animal in an upright posture, much like bipedalism?
A) vertical clinging and leaping B) quadrupedalism C) brachiation D) running