All of the following are lessons that emerge from the orangutan study except:
a. the concept of biological stress cannot be applied equally across species.
b. reproductive strategies can be flexible.
c. orangutans have no forms of aggression within their communities.
d. primate behavior is serious and has social consequences that may not be anticipated.
e. one must be cautious in comparing behaviors across species.
c
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a. the environmental mismatch between our bodies' design and contemporary environments b. evolutionary design compromises c. pleiotropic gene effects d. defenses vs. defects
Japanese apologies are different from English apologies because
A they are required in fewer contexts. B they are required in more contexts. C they are never used along with other speech acts. D they occur only in formal situations. E they occur only in very casual situations.
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A. the division of labor by gender is a natural characteristic of human societies. B. biology has nothing to do with gender roles. C. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality. D. patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general—not universal. E. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false