Which of the following is an example of human evolutionary ecology?
a. studying human behaviors as the result of direct evolutionary pressures
b. charting the relationship between agricultural practices and the evolution of the sickle cell polymorphism
c. hypothesizing about the cultural abilities of ancient hominins by comparing them to living non-human primates
d. focusing on the ecological factors that influence present-day hunter-gatherer societies
Answer d
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Which statement provides an example of global interconnectedness by outsourcing?
a. Many low-skilled jobs are now being performed abroad. b. Coca-Cola sells more of its product in Japan even though Japan has only half the population of the United States. c. Religious rituals are being outsourced from Catholic parishes in India to priests in the United States. d. Less than one third of U.S. franchise operators are in markets outside the United States. e. The environmental organization Greenpeace has more than forty offices in the United States now.
As the popularity of Navajo goods has increased in the twentieth century, Navajo artisans have been harmed by __________
a. new taxes on their products b. foreign production of fake Navajo goods c. the loss of sheep herds and dependence on factory processed wool d. tariffs on the export of reservation produced goods
Ribosomes are
a. the sex chromosomes. b. gametes. c. found only in prokaryotes. d. only present when the cell divides. e. important to protein synthesis.
Which of the following is/are evidence of robust australopiths' adaptation to eating hard-shelled seeds and grasses?
A. fine finger bones and a large mandible B. massive fossilized temporalis muscles C. the presence of very large molars and a sagittal crest on the top of the skull D. a small but flexible masseter muscle and an enlarged occipital bun E. bipedalism, providing the mobility necessary to gather food in open grasslands