Culture can be adaptive or maladaptive. It is maladaptive when
A. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions disrupt the world economy, causing international discontent.
B. it threatens the core values of a culture that guarantee its integration.
C. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions threaten the group's continued survival and reproduction and thus its very existence.
D. it exhibits cultural traits that are not shared with the majority of the group.
E. cultural traits diminish the survival of particular individuals but not others.
Answer: C
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a. How the social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories. b. The infallibility of science. c. How more civilized cultures (the Moundbuilders) can be destroyed by less civilized cultures (the Native Americans). d. How pseudoarchaeology can be useful to professional archaeologists. e. How to provide ourselves with an innate sense of superiority and right to dispossess Native Americans today.
C.K. Brain has argued that __________ were responsible for the deposits of human fossils in the caves of South Africa
A. leopards B. elephants C. australopithecines D. geological forces
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a. by the advent of nutritional problems as evidenced by bones from burial. b. by the construction of a system of defensive ditches and embankments. c. by the construction of artificially raised fields in areas that were flooded each rainy season. d. large, irrigation waterworks. e. existence of abandoned houses on prime lands.
Payments of money or valuable good to the bride's parents or other close kin is called _______________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word