The process organisms undergo to achieve a beneficial adjustment to a particular environment, which not only leads to biological changes in the organisms but also impacts their environment, is called:
a. accommodation.
b. acculturation.
c. adaptation.
d. assimilation.
e. incorporation.
c
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In South Sudan, a Nuer woman can marry a woman if her father has only daughters but no male heirs. This is done to maintain the patrilineage. The "wife" has sex with one or more men until she gets pregnant. The children born are then accepted as the offspring of both the female husband and the wife. What is important in this example is
A. social rather than biological paternity, again illustrating how kinship is socially constructed. B. that it illustrates how romantic love is both universal and complicated. C. how often marriage is simply about property. D. how biology overrides culture regardless of human intentions. E. the fact that only same-sex marriages are recognized in patrilineal societies.
Which of the following statements about foraging societies is true?
a. They have fairly dense populations. b. They are typically sedentary, not nomadic. c. They occupy some of the world’s best farmland. d. Their basic social unit is the family or band. e. They do not have access to necessary resources to survive.
Language use is patterned in systematic ways, and cultural norms are used to interpret communicative behavior
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In Primitive Culture, E. B. Tylor described the evolution of religion through three stages:
a. cults, sects, and Christianity. b. animism, polytheism, and monotheism. c. superstition, religion, and science. d. evolutionism, historical particularism, and materialism.