In their study of Maya ethnomedicine, Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin have shown that __________.
A) their treatment of disease is based entirely on the concept of balance
B) Western treatments fail to work in the Maya culture and environment
C) their remedies have properties not that different from biomedical treatments
D) Maya women have among the most comprehensive knowledge of medicinal plants
C) their remedies have properties not that different from biomedical treatments
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Specimens of early modern humans never possess primitive features shared with archaic H. sapiens
a. True b. False
Physical traits such as height, skin color, or liability to disease are controlled by multiple genes. This is called:
a. dominant genes. b. recessive genes. c. polygenetic inheritance. d. hemoglobin. e. dominant recession.
A marriage principle in which people marry members of their own group is called ________
a. endogamy b. exogamy c. kinship system d. inheritance rules
Ecological anthropologists are most interested in:
a. Interactions between humans and their environments. b. Controlling human population growth. c. Protecting the natural environment. d. Increasing the world's food supply. e. Assessing the effectiveness of different methods of making a living.