What advantages does cultural adaptation have over biological adaptation?
What will be an ideal response?
It can change more quickly and easily, and it can be a newly created change, unlike biological adaptation which must rely on chance mutations.
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Fossils can be used to reconstruct ancient animal communities and therefore make inferences about ancient environments and habitats
a. True b. False
A person who is homozygous recessive at a locus has which of the following?
a. A recessive allele on the X chromosome only b. Two copies of the dominant allele c. Two copies of the recessive allele d. ?An autosomal trisomy e. ?A recessive allele on the Y chromosome only
Language, according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:
a. causes all people to perceive the world in the same way. b. causes all humans to construct reality in similar ways. c. establishes in our minds categories that affect our perception. d. determines how well-formed our brain will be. e. is the sole force of cultural innovation.
If food and water supplies are predictable and fixed in location, then food-foraging societies tend to have highly flexible boundaries
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false