Nutritional anthropologists study the interrelationship of __________
a. disease, evolution, and culture
b. diet, culture, and evolution
c. environment, genetics, and adaptation
d. culture, evolution, and non-human primate eating habits
Answer b
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Anthropologists use the term "pastoralists" to refer to peoples who __________
A. live in sedentary villages and rely principally on farming B. are highly mobile, gathering wild plant foods from forest clearings C. rely primarily on herd animals, such as caribou, cattle, sheep, or goats D. subsist by slash-and-burn cultivation of forest lands
The difference between western and eastern Pueblo society is thought to be due in part to
A) the fact that one was matrilineal, the other patrilineal. B) the fact that one used irrigation, the other did not. C) their different cultural origins. D) the Spanish invasion. E) none of the above.
Which of the following best describes microevolution?
A. genetic changes in a population without speciation B. the formation of a new species C. the divergence of one ancestral species into two D. long periods of stability with occasional evolutionary leaps E. the exchange of genetic material through interbreeding
Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal
A. varies depending on whether it refers to politics in a Western or non-Western context. B. is different from the one typically used in current U.S. politics, in which liberal is the opposite of conservative. C. is a Protestant ideology. D. has no implications for the relationship between economics and the state. E. is a more accurate use of the term than the one Americans typically hear in current talk radio.