Outline the various reasons why poor societies, and poor individuals within societies, have higher incidences of illness.
What will be an ideal response?
1. More crowded lives and lack of resources
2. Less access to adequate health care
3. Post-colonial conditions leading to illness, violence, depression, and substance abuse
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What are some of the major anatomical differences between the genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus? What evolutionary consequences might these differences have had for the two genera?
What will be an ideal response?
Merchant capitalism is associated with:
a. the worldwide commercial use of money b. global companies operating in two or more countries c. trade and exchange carried on through the merchant marines d. seafaring trade during the colonial period
In a study of farming tribes in the eastern United States, researchers found that ____ societies were the most successful in terms of maintaining their populations under changing social and environmental conditions
a. agricultural b. horticultural c. patrilineal d. matrilineal
During the Irish potato famine
a. poor agricultural practices prevented the Irish from producing enough food. b. hunger was largely due to an unwillingness to eat foods that were newly introduced. c. Ireland was exporting to England enough food to feed 18 million people. d. All of these are true of the Irish potato famine.