What insights can we gain about humanity’s past by studying the lives of contemporary foragers? What are the limitations associated with using modern foragers to help understand ancient humans?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Note that modern foragers are limited to marginal environments
2. Contemporary foraging societies are as modern as other cultures, and are influenced by neighboring societies
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Which of the following is a definition for environmentalism?
a. prejudice against a person based on his or her racial heritage b. the study of how cultures classify organisms in the natural world c. the view that the environment has great powers to directly shape the anatomy of individual organisms d. the measurement of different aspects of the body, such as stature or skin color
What is the primary weakness of both the gender division-of-labor and prolonged-infant-dependency models for the benefits of marriage?
A) Marriage seems to be much older than the typical division of labor by gender found today. B) There are many ways other than marriage for groups of men and women to work together. C) The division of labor around childcare responsibilities is only found in a few cultures. D) Many species have a longer infant dependency than humans and get by without marriage.
What is a taxonomy?
A. a set of selective forces enacted on one lineage B. a classification scheme where organisms are assigned to categories C. an adaptive trait due to convergent evolution D. a way to define an organism's repertoire of social behaviors E. a trait inherited from a common ancestor
The city of __________ in southern Pakistan is one of the earliest cities in South Asia with evidence for baked brick buildings and drainage systems
A. Mohenjo-daro B. An-yang C. Uruk D. Gujarat E. Jenné-jeno