According to Dean Falk and Glenn Conroy bipedalism could have developed to __________
a. make it possible to reach fruit in trees
b. see over tall grasses
c. dissipate heat
d. carry infants
Answer c
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Generations of scientists have debated whether the Neandertals were ancestral to modern Europeans. The current prevailing view, which denies that ancestry, proposes that
A. Neandertals died out because they retained too many australopith characteristics that were poorly adapted to northern latitudes. B. Neandertals migrated eastward through Siberia and into the Americas until they died out. C. H. erectus killed off the Neandertals even prior to the emergence of anatomically modern humans. D. H. erectus split into separate groups, one ancestral to the Neandertals, the other ancestral to anatomically modern humans, who first reached Europe around 100,000 B.P.—long before Neandertals. E. modern humans evolved in Africa and eventually colonized Europe, displacing the Neandertals there.
How do the rules of endogamy function in society?
A. They extend kin ties across classes. B. They encourage the extension of affinal bonds to an ever-widening circle of people. C. They prove that the incest taboo is not the cultural universal it was once thought to be. D. They expand the gene pool. E. They tend to maintain social distinctions between groups.
Discuss the different residential patterns at Monte Albán and Teotihuacan and what interpretations can be drawn from them.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements is true of science?
A. It is a system of expert validation. B. It is a methodology. C. It is a belief system. D. It is a body of truth.