How are Japanese communicative norms different from American ones?
A Japanese speakers greet strangers more frequently and ask strangers more questions.
B Japanese speakers tend to take shorter turns in conversation and distribute the turns more equally.
C Japanese communicative norms stress directness and avoidance of ambiguity.
D Japanese communicative norms encourage speakers to express their personal opinions in any context.
E All of the above
B
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According to anthropologists, the increased use of satellite data to study ecological changes in different regions of the world will lead to
A) more need for anthropological fieldwork, because satellite data must be interpreted from the perspective of the cultural practices of the people who manage the land. B) less need for anthropological fieldwork, because remote sensing will generate all the data required. C) the understanding that ecosystem changes are due only indirectly to human activities through global warming, rather than to decision making on a local level. D) finding that the data are not useful for anthropological study, because they cannot be used to interpret events in the past. E) none of the above.
Any factor that contributes to the change in allele frequency in a breeding population from generation to generation is considered a mechanism of genetic evolution. Those mechanisms are
A. random genetic drift and random gene flow. B. phenotypic straining through the organism's development and mutations across the generations. C. sexual selection, mutation, and human biological plasticity. D. independent assortment, recombination, and mutation. E. natural selection, mutation, random genetic drift, and gene flow.
Skeletal biologists are very much interested in learning how prehistoric peoples behaved and how numerous behaviors influenced their health. In the last two decades many skeletal experts have identified this approach with the term
a. Bioarchaeology. b. Bioanarchy. c. Prehistoric Biology. d. Paleobiology. e. Paleoanthrobiology.