What is hypodescent? Why is it an arbitrary rule of racial classification?

What will be an ideal response?


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A. changes in gene frequencies in response to specific selective pressures B. changes in gene frequencies as a result of changes in mutation rates C. changes in gene frequencies as a result of genetic drift D. any change in gene frequencies from one generation to the next

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Anthropologists are interested in kinship calculation,

a: but only if it changes demographics from decade to decade b: which means how people evaluate the worth of anthropological research c: and then they do their best to impose their etic perspective on people's emit views d: which means how people apply mathematical principles to determine degrees of relatedness with the ancestors of anatomically modern humans e: which means the system by which people in society reckon kin relationships

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Eugenics is thought to have been a guiding principle for the _________

a. Romans b. Greeks c. Nazis d. Vikings

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The global food industry has led to increased poverty in rural America

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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