If Sweet Dreams controls 85 percent of the market for insomnia drugs and the remaining 15 percent of the market includes many other, smaller competing firms, Sweet Dreams is a ________ firm.
A) competitive fringe
B) dominant
C) perfectly competitive
D) monopoly
B) dominant
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Which of these subsistence strategies finds the individual ownership of land most important?
A) pastoralism B) horticulture C) intensive agriculture D) food collecting
The example of the sickle-cell allele demonstrates a key aspect of evolution through natural selection, in that
A. adaptation and fitness are in relation to the individual organism, not the general population. B. human populations in the tropics are the most susceptible to random changes caused by natural selection. C. natural selection increases the variety in a population upon which subsequent natural selective processes can act. D. adaptation and fitness are in relation to specific environments; traits are not universally adaptive or maladaptive. E. although natural selection usually acts upon the phenotype, it can sometimes act upon the genotype.
Living in a tropical environment where one learns to orient oneself through a vertical landscape of tall trees and speckled light is part of:
a. gender orientation. b. spatial orientation. c. object orientation. d. normative orientation. e. temporal orientation.
Neoevolutionist Leslie White defined cultural evolution to mean that technology
a. had a greater capacity to inflict harm on groups of people. b. had an increased likelihood of causing environmental degradation. c. was able to harness a greater amount of energy per person per year. d. was increasingly complex in its components and the skill needed to run it.