Related to his study of famines, economist Amartya Sen found that
a. famines are frequently the result of market forces that raise food costs and depress incomes.
b. famines are largely the consequence of food shortages.
c. GNP may be the best indicator of relative well-being in a country.
d. relative income is the best measure of standard of living.
ANSWER:
a
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The path from foraging to food production was one that people followed independently in at least seven world areas. New archaeological research techniques continue to overturn previously held assumptions about where and how this occurred. Microscopic evidence from early cultivated plants suggests that
A. farming in the South American tropical lowlands preceded domestication in the Middle East by some 5,000 years. B. New World farming began in the lowlands of South America and then spread to Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands. C. maize was first domesticated in the Pacific islands and brought to the Americas by colonizers who navigated to the western coasts of South America. D. all early domesticates originated among the Clovis people, whose knowledge then diffused southward. E. the old assumption that New World farming originated in the upland areas is correct.
Culture is most commonly defined to include all of the following except:
a. ideas b. biology c. values d. perceptions
The cultural definitions of what it means to be a male or female today:
a. are determined by biological differences. b. are independent of biological differences. c. stem from biological differences that are less significant today. d. developed about 60 million years ago when our species first emerged. e. have no relationship to sex.
Raw materials, labor, and technology are the productive resources used by all societies
a. True b. False