The vitamin D hypothesis
a. helps explain why dark-skinned populations are found near the equator.
b. has never been challenged.
c. cannot explain why light skin may be adaptive in low UV environments.
d. remains the primary hypothesis explaining why skin color lightened as populations moved out of Africa.
e. helped Pasteur to discover the process of homogenization
d
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a. cultural resource management b. ethnology c. fieldwork d. site research
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. There is no such thing as a cultural universal. b. There are cultural universals, but there is no single explanation about how they developed. c. Anthropologists believe that cultural universals exist because at one time there was a single human culture. d. Periodically cultural universals occur, especially at points of evolution. e. Human evolution could not occur without cultural universals.
American parents __________.
A) stress independence but often reward dependent behaviors B) stress independence and reward independent behaviors C) stress dependency and reward dependent behaviors D) stress dependency but often reward independent behaviors
Which concept, proposed by Charles Lyell, had a profound effect on 19th-century scientific thought?
a. Natural selection b. The immense age of the earth c. The role of catastrophic events in producing geological phenomena d. Recent origins for earth e. The inheritance of acquired characteristics