For most of hominin history
a. our ancestors' reproductive capacity was much different from our ape cousins.
b. a woman gave birth every three or four years.
c. women gave birth every two years, then a few thousand years ago began to give birth every three or four years.
d. infant mortality rates were different than those of early farmers and some communities today.
e. had a relatively worse environmental record before the end of the Ice Age.
b
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According to Clifford Geertz, people impose meaning on their actions and experiences because:
A) without these, all actions and experiences would appear to be pointless and emotional.? B) ?our brains compel us to do so. C) ?otherwise, they would be unsure of how to act. D) ?without such meanings outsiders would be unable to understand these experiences.
The rapid expansion and diversification of groups of organisms into newly available ecological niches is termed
a. generalization. b. homology. c. parallel evolution. d. an adaptive radiation. e. specialization.
Which of the following topics would best be approached by studying primates in their natural habitat?
a. language learning skills b. social dynamics c. comparative intelligence d. conceptual capacity
The genus Australopithecus is characterized by:
A. marked postorbital constriction B. thick postcranial bones C. large incisors relative to the other teeth D. thick cranial bones