What are the advantages of polygyny? Name three

What will be an ideal response?


The advantages are increased number of wives (labor pool), increased number of children, and increased number of alliances with other families.

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The australopithecines are the earliest members of the human family

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What is a revitalization movement?

What will be an ideal response?

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All of the following are examples of cultural practices acting as an agent for biological selection except:

a. people diagnosed with diabetes taking a medicine prescribed by physicians become as biologically fit as anyone else b. people of low financial status who are unable to purchase medication prescribed by physicians affecting biological fitness c. an inherited trait that affects biological fitness d. greater lactose tolerance in populations contributing significantly to diet

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Treating the effects of poverty on health with pills is referred to as __________

A) cultural constructionism B) medicalization C) biological determinism D) medical pluralism

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