Darwin's five-year voyage on board the HMS Beagle:
A. was disappointing to him since he only was able to visit South America
B. allowed him to gain new insights into the plants and animals in different parts of the world
C. was important because he traveled with the older and more experienced naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace
D. all of these
B. allowed him to gain new insights into the plants and animals in different parts of the world
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a. whether the home's shrine is equipped with a font. b. what the home is constructed from. c. how large the home is. d. how many shrines the house contains.
The foundations of the state-a social and political unit featuring a central government, extreme contrasts of wealth, and social classes-emerged
A. in the hilly flanks, because that was the area that could best sustain a growing population. B. out of an attempt to copy, on a larger scale, the lifestyle that early sedentism offered its members prior to the sudden population growth caused by food production. C. in the alluvial desert plain of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where a new economy based on irrigation and trade fueled the growth of this entirely new form of society. D. against the will of the people, who correctly foresaw the many ills this new form of society would bring upon them. E. below the intersection of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where the abundance of water helped keep a complex irrigation system working.
The dominant religion in Indonesia is:
a. Daoism. b. Islam. c. Hinduism. d. Christianity.
Why is behavioral genetics considered a controversial field?
a. Behavior is complex and may be the product of more than just the underlying genetics. b. An observable link between behavior and genes is impossible to observe. c. Behaviors are not consistent from one generation to the next and are not controlled by genetics. d. Behaviors are only influenced by the immediate environment.