What are three major types of marriage based on the number of spouses permitted?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER:
They are monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry.

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a. maintains that humans had a localized origin b. is often called the Multiregional Model c. implies that modern human variation evolved millions of years ago d. is not supported by genetic data

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The children of your father's sister are called your cross cousins

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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A material function of sacrificing cattle as part of a religious festival suggests that:

a. Cattle stand for the deviant members of society and killing them purifies society. b. Communal feasts are an effective way of distributing meat in societies without refrigeration. c. Meat is not an important resource in societies that practice such sacrifice. d. People who sacrifice animals have little understanding of ecology or proper animal husbandry. e. Only weak, sick, and elderly beasts are actually killed, thus proper management techniques are enshrined in religious ritual.

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If Sweet Dreams controls 85 percent of the market for insomnia drugs and the remaining 15 percent of the market includes many other, smaller competing firms, Sweet Dreams is a ________ firm.

A) competitive fringe B) dominant C) perfectly competitive D) monopoly

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