Societies in which all members have equal access to valued resources, including land, social prestige, wealth, and power, are referred to as __________
a. democracies
b. advanced societies
c. egalitarian societies
d. ranked societies
Answer: c
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Huntington's disease is an example of a __________
a. disease caused by environmental exposure to specific stressors b. polyglutamine expansion disease c. deletion of two DNA bases d. substitution DNA mutation
The goal of middle-level theory is to
a. determine whether modern cultures accurately reflect prehistoric cultures. b. identify gender through stone tool analysis. c. help build secure inferences from archaeological remains. d. identify the role of the individual in archaeological research. e. study how natural processes contribute to the formation of the archaeological record.
By using the steps outlined in the research process, an anthropologist will have a structured and controlled research project and design
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A recent cross-cultural study of 87 societies, all of which had incest taboos, investigated the rate at which such taboos were broken. The results of this study add to the evidence that
A. cultural universals, like the human ability to make fire, always have a genetic basis. B. Freud was right: Children everywhere have sexual feelings toward their parents. C. although tabooed, incest does happen. D. many societies need better educational systems. E. many societies need better techniques of social control.