Full-time religious specialists are called __________

a. monks
b. priests
c. shamans
d. mediums


b

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Outline the major patterns through which cultures change, providing a definition and example for each

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following hominins has the most primitive (ancestral) traits?

a. Homo habilis b. Australopithecus africanus c. Australopithecus robustus d. Australopithecus boisei e. Australopithecus afarensis

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What is a phenotypic adaptation, and what makes it possible?

A. It is a genotypic adaptation that is expressed in the phenotype. It is made possible by the close relationship between our manifest biology and our genes. B. It occurs when genetic changes take place during an individual's lifetime. It is made possible by human genetic plasticity, our ability to change in response to the environments we encounter as we grow. C. It is a phenotypic adaptation made possible by culture's power over biology. D. It happens when adaptive changes occur during an individual's lifetime. It is made possible by human biological plasticity, our ability to change in response to the environments we encounter as we grow. E. It is a biological adaptation that occurs during an individual's lifetime and, if critical enough to survival, will actually modify the genotype.

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Because nonindustrial economies can have features of both horticulture and agriculture, it is useful to discuss cultivators as being arranged along a cultivation continuum. Which of the following generally occurs in moving toward the more intensive end of the cultivation continuum?

A. increased leisure time B. increasing economic specialization C. improved overall health status of the population D. longer fallow periods E. increased egalitarianism

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