Which of the following statements is NOT associated with industrialized agriculture?
a. It relies on technological sources of energy for production.
b. It relies on monocrop production — single crops produced on large acreages.
c. It has caused considerable environmental destruction.
d. It has led to water pollution and soil contamination in some areas.
e. It has led to the flow of capital from wealthier nations to poorer ones.
e
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The stereotypical ideas people have about individuals from other countries are examples of __________
a. culture b. material culture c. symbolic culture d. holistic perspective
Native Australians are closer genetically to tropical Africans than they are to Asians
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
In its most common biological usage, the term race
a. has precise definitions agreed upon all anthropologists b. refers to the geographically patterned phenotypic variation within a species c. refers only to skin color d. refers only to IQ e. refers to a person's nationality
The example of the sickle-cell allele demonstrates a key aspect of evolution through natural selection, in that
A. although natural selection usually acts upon the phenotype, it can sometimes act upon the genotype. B. human populations in the tropics are the most susceptible to random changes caused by natural selection. C. adaptation and fitness are in relation to specific environments; traits are not universally adaptive or maladaptive. D. adaptation and fitness are in relation to the individual organism, not the general population. E. natural selection increases the variety in a population upon which subsequent natural selective processes can act.