Compare and contrast the evolution of language and biological evolution. What role may mutations play in the origins of human language, if any?

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The inhabitants of the Indus Valley urban centers:

a. had previously occupied the higher valley margins to the west b. had previously practiced hunting and gathering in the Indus valley c. migrated there from the upper Indus valley d. adopted farming and herding when they settled on the valley floor e. represent a long term sequence of occupation of the valley floor

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Chiefs have some power to control economic labor and __________

a. kinship alliances of families under them b. distribution of resources c. religious ideology d. family life

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Which is NOT true about human language?

a. It uses symbols that refer to concepts, people, objects, etc. b. It is limited to communicating about the past. c. It is partly based on the human ability to think symbolically. d. It contains written and spoken symbols. e. It contains arbitrary sets of symbols.

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A fetal limb bone is originally formed of:

A. cartilage B. actual bone C. calcium D. membrane

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