Our use of antibiotics has dramatically altered the course of evolution, to the point that:
a. antibiotics are no longer significant selective factors causing bacteria to evolve.
b. insecticides are now more prevalent in reducing malaria.
c. at least 15% of degraded ecosystems have been restored.
d. antibiotics are significant selective factors causing more virulent forms of bacteria.
e. human technology is no longer responsible for the deadly nature of new diseases.
d
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a. Africa b. India c. Madagascar d. Chile
Quipus are made of
A. knotted rope. B. pottery. C. obsidian. D. corn.
Upper Paleolithic peoples made symbolic depictions on all of these, EXCEPT
a. cave walls. b. rock faces (carved). c. fired clay. d. bone and antler. e. their bodies in the form of tattoos
What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?
A. assimilation B. multicultural C. broad-spectrum subsistence D. plural society E. pluralism