Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that
A. the division of labor by gender is a natural characteristic of human societies.
B. biology has nothing to do with gender roles.
C. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality.
D. patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general—not universal.
E. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule.
Answer: D
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A. can be clinal for some traits and discontinuous for others B. is such that populations similar for one trait will always be similar for all traits C. is not affected by migration D. all of these
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A) seaside B) cave C) desert D) city
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A) the medical and scientific "takeover" of involvement in reproduction and mortality and decline of involvement of religion B) the general decline in mortality rates among infants and children in contemporary societies C) different patterns of mortality among the rich and the poor D) the aging of the populations of industrialized countries
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A. dividing organisms into categories B. the least complex explanation being the most likely C. species evolving over a similar amount of time D. separating species on the basis of similar anatomical traits