What is the advantage of bilateral descent groups in industrial societies?
a. Such groups expand the kin network more than unilineal descent groups.
b. Such groups make it possible to loosen obligations to kin.
c. Such groups are more likely to provide help to members in times of need.
d. Such groups are the only ones compatible with nuclear families.
b
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a. a group of people sharing similar cultural traits. b. a group of people sharing similar beliefs and ideologies. c. nothing more than a statistical statement about the occurrence of physical traits. d. three specific categories: Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid. e. the accumulation of all physical differences between any two populations.
Who developed the binomial system of classifying biological organisms?
a. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck b. Georges Cuvier c. Carolus Linnaeus d. Charles Lyell e. Erasmus Darwin
Not all nonhuman primate visual signals are involuntary: some show intent such as
A) a chimpanzee holding out his hand as a gesture of submission B) a baboon mother touching her abdomen to tell her infant to cling to her as she is moving away to forage elsewhere C) a chimpanzee raising her arm as a threat D) the use of eye contact as a threatening gesture by a chimpanzee E) all of the above
A metaphor is an alternative word for something
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.