The gradual process of making beneficial adjustments to the environment is called:
a. adjustment.
b. adaption.
c. adaptation.
d. acclimatization.
e. alteration.
c
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A "big man" is a
A. person who holds a permanent political office. B. hereditary ruler. C. person of influence and prestige. D. leader who avoids excessive displays of generosity. E. leader who has tremendous power because he is regarded as divine.
__________ is the study of material culture
a. Cultural anthropology b. Archaeology c. Paleoanthropology d. Museum curation
A recent cross-cultural study of 87 societies, all of which had incest taboos, investigated the rate at which such taboos were broken. The results of this study add to the evidence that
A. cultural universals, like the human ability to make fire, always have a genetic basis. B. Freud was right: Children everywhere have sexual feelings toward their parents. C. although tabooed, incest does happen. D. many societies need better educational systems. E. many societies need better techniques of social control.
Paleoanthropologists study:
a. Europe in the 17th C. b. people such as the Asmat from New Guinea. c. the elderly in any society. d. fossil remains of human ancestors.