What are the different kinds of research that fall under biological anthropology? How is such a wide range of topics linked?
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The overall economic impact of globalization has been
a. rich countries have gotten richer. b. standards of living are decreasing for people in the poorest countries. c. the gap between the rich and the poor has visibly increased. d. All of these are true of the economic impact of globalization.
Alfred Binet developed the IQ test to:
A. measure general intelligence B. measure emotional intelligence C. measure job readiness D. determine if school children needed special education
In understanding the problems that have arisen in attempts at human racial classification, why is it important to understand the difference between genotype and phenotype?
A. Although phenotypic characteristics may change, the genetic material of populations stays the same for a long time. B. Attempts at human racial classification typically used phenotypic traits like skin color as markers of common ancestry, but many such traits do not reflect the existence of shared genetic material. C. Attempts at human racial classification have typically used genotypic traits like blood type as markers of common ancestry, and these traits are passed on from generation to generation in discrete bundles. D. The phenotypical traits used to classify humans into races go together as genetic units. E. Phenotypical similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.
An example of a culturally specific mental illness is latah, a disorder in which __________
a. the sufferer is afraid of open spaces b. the suffer usually acquires the disorder after a traumatic experience c. the sufferer, always a woman, suffers uncontrollable hysteria after the death of a relative d. the sufferer may become a homicidal cannibal