Selection for traits that make males more able to compete directly for females is termed:
A. intersexual selection
B. intrasexual selection
C. countersexual selection
D. infrasexual selection
B. intrasexual selection
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a. can be facilitated by identifying species that interbreed and produce live hybrid offspring. b. is never a subjective process. c. is always easy and accurate, although there is an acute lack of fossil evidence. d. is problematic and therefore not a common practice of physical anthropologists. e. requires similarities between species in one genus and species of another genus.
Discuss two cases illustrating religion's role in social change.
What will be an ideal response?
Upper Paleolithic peoples of Europe produced ivory sculptures and mural paintings
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Fraternal polyandry:
a. is the most common form of marriage in Tibet and Nepal. b. occurs primarily as an adaptation to a shortage of wives due to female infanticide. c. is practiced where shortages of land keep brothers from being able to inherit a sufficient amount of land. d. is beneficial for the men involved, but is detrimental to the status of the woman.