More than 30 diseases new to human medicine have emerged in the past three decades. Researchers like Carol Jenkins, who worked in Papua New Guinea, believe that many of these emerged as a result of environmental destruction. Which of the following is not one of these “new” diseases?
a. Tuberculosis
b. Legionnaire’s disease
c. Lyme disease
d. HIV/AIDS
e. Dengue fever
ANSWER: a
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A. farmers and individuals in the outdoors. B. accident. C. digging and construction activities. D. amateur archaeologists while walking fields. E. All of the answers are correct.
People are usually willing to change just enough to maintain, or slightly improve on, what they already have. For this reason, development projects are most likely to succeed when they avoid the fallacy of
A. cultural relativism. B. ethno-bias. C. overinnovation. D. underdifferentiation. E. intervention philosophy.
Microevolution refers to:
A. any change in the frequency of alleles in the gene pool of a population B. only changes that occur because of natural selection C. only changes due to mutations D. the evolution of new species
Behavior involving unfair and unequal treatment of individuals is
a. prejudice. b. bias. c. discrimination. d. impartiality.