Determining heritability provides direct insight into individual genetic mechanisms
a. True
b. False
Correct Answer: b
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a. ?Market exchange b. Reciprocity c. Redistribution d. Trade
Class differences may have a greater influence on IQ scores than heredity
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes illustrates
A. the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme environments. B. human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and physiological adaptations. C. how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture. D. how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some 10,000 years ago. E. how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.