The New World monkeys most likely:
A. evolved independently in South America from a late omomyid
B. are descended from a group of early African anthropoids
C. are descended from a group of early Asian anthropoids
D. are descended from a group of early European anthropoids
B. are descended from a group of early African anthropoids
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Given the case studies presented in Chapter 12, global warming
a. will have a major effect on subsistence patterns. b. is cause for concern of anthropologists. c. will affect availability of fresh water on many communities. d. has several yet unknown effects on global communities. e. all of these.
Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that
A. becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture. B. is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena. C. is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots. D. challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world. E. requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.
Anthropological research that collects and records descriptive data about the cultures of different peoples is called
a. ethnography. b. ethnology. c. participant observation. d. cultural archaeology.
During glacial peaks, much of western Europe would have been:
a. covered with desert. b. unaffected. c. covered with rain forests. d. cut off from the rest of Eurasia. e. completely flooded.