Anthropologists claim that in nonstate societies the political structure is embedded in relationships based on kinship, descent, and marriage. What does this mean? Use two ethnographic cases to illustrate this claim.
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The neoevolutionists' perspective differed from the nineteenth-century evolutionists' ideas in a number of ways. The neoevolutionists __________
A. assumed a unilineal direction for society from savagery to barbarism to civilization B. did not assume that sociocultural evolution toward complexity was always equated with progress C. were ethnocentric and racist in their approach to understanding cultural evolution and complexity D. assumed that civilization was the pinnacle of sociocultural development
Orangutans survive only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When individuals of the same species are reproductively isolated, genetic differences may accumulate in sufficient number so that new species could emerge. Such an event would be an example of:
a. microevolution. b. the founder effect. c. equilibrium. d. macroevolution.
Breeding isolates are groups that are clearly separated geographically and/or socially from other breeding groups
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false