The fact that all human beings need oxygen to survive is an example of a(n):

a) universal law.
b) cultural specificity.
c) ethnographic truth.
d) experimental correlation.


ANS: A, Universal laws are those situations that transcend cultural differences and apply identically to all human beings.

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