When natural selection favors retention of an allele frequency because the population is well adapted, it is referred to as:

a. reproductive success
b. stabilizing selection
c. founder effects
d. directional selection


b

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A. evidence of the earliest recorded stone tools B. hominin fossils, dubbed Homo naledi, that have a mix of primitive and modern features C. the earliest known member of the hominin lineage, fossil LD 350-1 D. australopith remains with surprisingly large craniums E. the skull and skeletons of miniature people, H. floresiensis

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McCurdy claims in "Using Anthropology" that in many companies, newly installed managers tend to

a. listen to their employees' suggestions. b. ask employees to teach them the new job. c. leave their employees alone. d. impose a new agenda on their employees.

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Name and describe three types of reciprocity

What will be an ideal response?

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Anthropologists are reasonably sure that high levels of social stratification __________

A) emerged relatively recently in human history B) are dependent upon intensive agriculture C) have always existed across human societies D) are always linked to ethnic or racial groupings

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