Intensive agriculture requires great investment of both labor and capital, but it does support more people per unit of land than horticulture can
a. True
b. False
ANSWER:
True
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The rise of plow agriculture has generally:
a. Not affected women's status. b. Lowered women's status. c. Raised women's status. d. Resulted in lower birth rates. e. Increased women's longevity.
By the mid-Miocene, monkeys became more common than apes because __________
a. monkeys are k-selected while apes are r-selected b. monkeys can more easily shift to efficient terrestrial locomotion c. monkeys are more intelligent d. apes cannot react quickly enough to the changing environment
__________ is the practice among pastoralists of moving to new pastures on a seasonal basis
a. Nomadism b. Migration c. A seasonal round d. Transhumance
Thus far, what do the postcranial remains of the Dmanisi hominins indicate?
a. They are indistinguishable from Homo sapiens. b. They are significantly more robust than other Homo erectus. c. They are much more similar to modern humans than to Homo erectus. d. The first hominins to leave Africa were possibly a very early form of H. erectus. e. They are not bipeds.