Which of the following concepts did NOT influence Darwin in developing his theory of evolution?
a. Population size increases more rapidly than food supplies.
b. There is competition among individuals for resources.
c. Species are unchanging types, and individual variation within a species is not important.
d. There is biological variation in all members of a species.
e. Favorable variations are passed on and accumulate in populations over time.
c
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a. Intensive agriculture b. Local fishery projects c. Community gardens d. Back-to-the-land movements e. Farmers' markets
Which of the following is not a major form of establishing spiritual lineage?
a. Apprenticeship personally to a religious leader, as among Sufis b. Election by religious elders, as among Catholics c. Following a new charismatic prophet, as among the Raelians d. Seeking a divinely appointed individual through revelation, as among Tibetan Buddhists e. Claiming biological descent from a common ancestor, as among Israelites
Dated to approximately 500,000-400,000 years ago, the site of______________has yielded a sample of 4,000 fossil fragments representing about twenty-eight premodern Homo sapiens individuals, more than 80% of all Middle Pleistocene hominin remains in the world
a. Ehringsdorf b. Sima de los Huesos c. Steinheim d. Swanscombe e. Petralona
The __________ system is used by some patrilineal peoples that extend the term for mother and mother’s brother to include cross-cousins on the maternal side
a. Eskimo b. Crow c. Omaha d. Hawaiian