Anthropologist Thomas Conelly found that when the rice yields from their swiddens dropped, the Philippine farmers of Palawan Island

A) left the land and migrated to the city.
B) continued to practice horticulture with a greater variety of crops.
C) began to clear primary forest to get more land for farming.
D) turned to irrigation to get better yields, even though it required more labor.
E) went back to hunting and gathering, because it required less labor.


D

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According to Patten in "Malawi Versus the World Bank," the "Washington Consensus" required countries that borrowed money from the World Bank and IMF to

a. privatize state-owned enterprises. b. increase spending on health and education. c. limit their trade with foreign markets. d. use public monies to subsidize commodities.

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Found among the Indians of the Northwest American coast, the potlatch is a mechanism of both redistribution and social ranking

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Recent research on the origins of language suggests that a key mutation might have something to do with it. Comparing chimp and human genomes, it appears that

A. a speech-friendly mutation occurred among Neandertals in Europe and spread to other human populations through gene flow. B. the speech mutation occurred even before the hominin line split from the rest of the hominids. C. the speech-friendly form of the gene FOXP2 took hold in humans some 150,000 years ago. D. chimps share with humans all the genetic propensities for language but lack the language-activation mutation. E. chimps lack the tongue-rolling gene that all humans have, which might explain why they struggle to achieve clear speech.

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