Anthropologists have abandoned the idea of using race as a way to study human biological variation
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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a. establishing how bones arrived at a site b. repetitive activities individuals performed before they died c. osteology d. investigating relationships among population groups
Primates achieve stereoscopic vision by having __________
a. forward-facing eyes b. large eyes c. eyes that see well at night d. round eyes
What is a phenotypic adaptation, and what makes it possible?
A. 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. B. 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. C. It is a phenotypic adaptation made possible by culture's power over biology. D. 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. E. It is a biological adaptation that occurs during an individual's lifetime and, if critical enough to survival, will actually modify the genotype.
How have anthropologists tried to bring evolution into the study of human culture? Have these approaches succeeded, or failed? Why? Do you see any way in which evolution and culture could be united into a broad and effective explanatory paradigm?
What will be an ideal response?