According to materialists
a. each culture is a unique product of its own historical and environmental circumstances.
b. human behavior, including cultural practices, is motivated by the principle of survival of the fittest.
c. all parts of a culture are integrated in a way so that to understand any part we must understand the otherparts as well
d. how people make a living is the most important influence on all other aspects of culture.
d
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The recent African origins hypothesis is also called the _______________ hypothesis
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The process of recombination occurs during
a. crossing over. b. mitosis. c. meiosis. d. protein synthesis. e. none of these.
The process by which people acquire their own culture is:
a. called enculturation. b. genetically based. c. more rapid in industrialized societies than in less technologically developed ones. d. slowest in industrialized societies and most rapid in less technologically developed ones. e. called pluralism and results in pluralistic societies.
According to the unilineal evolutionists, the non-Western cultures being documented in the nineteenth century were
a. the products of unique historical events and human interactions. b. as civilized as those of Western Europe. c. examples of an earlier stage of cultural evolution. d. anomalies that were impossible to explain.