A regression analysis estimated using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) does all of the following except which one?
A) estimates the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables
B) minimizes the sum of the squared residuals
C) fits a perfect straight line that connects each of the scatter points
D) includes a random error term
C) fits a perfect straight line that connects each of the scatter points
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a. all great apes b. modern humans and now extinct bipedal relatives c. all bipedal apes d. only modern humans e. only extinct bipedal relatives
The work of paleogeneticist Svante Paabo challenges the recent African origins hypothesis
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The anatomical work of T. H. Huxley
A) showed that human's closest evolutionary relatives are the apes B) proved that humans were created in their present form 6000 years ago C) showed that there were several subspecies of humans D) established the fact that species go extinct E) provided strong evidence against the evolutionary development of humans
An early twentieth-century approach that challenged evolutionism by emphasizing that each culture is a unique result of its distinctive past, which makes cross-cultural generalizations questionable, is called:
a. cultural relativism. b. indigenous creativism. c. historical particularism. d. unilineal evolutionism.