According to Margaret Mead, Samoan adolescents were openly permitted to engage in premarital sex

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: F

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Tatiana Zerjal and her colleagues found a group of men from Asia who shared a haplotype that they termed the __________ cluster

a. Mongol b. Genghis Khan c. star d. empire

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In a(n) ________, most leaders will acquire their positions because of their personal backgrounds or abilities, rather than heredity.

A. imagined community B. agrarian, preindustrial state C. tribal society D. chiefdom E. feudal state

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The design feature "duality of patterning" refers to the human capacity to:

a. connect a large set of sounds to a small object (i.e. microorganism) and a small set of sounds to a large object (i.e. whale). b. create ambiguous sentences with dual meanings based on syntactic patterns. c. say one thing while intending to say another, indicating the second meaning with tone of voice. d. create nearly infinite combinations of finite sets of language units.

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When the Batak foragers of the Philippines incorporated agriculture into their subsistence economy,

A) they immediately became sedentary. B) they did not abandon hunting and gathering, but now combine it with cultivation and participation in the market economy. C) they no longer allowed foreign tourists to enter their territory. D) they continued hunting, but only with blowguns. E) they began to use a wider range of animal and plant resources than in the past.

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