Some paleoanthropologists maintain that one cannot speak of species in the fossil record. What are some of the difficulties in applying the species concept to extinct populations?
What will be an ideal response?
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The __________ of language speakers often reveals the history of migration and regional occupation
a. education b. age c. demographics d. sex
An explanation of misfortune based on the belief that certain individuals possess an innate, psychic power capable of causing harm, including sickness and death, is called:
a. sorcery. b. witchcraft. c. imitative magic. d. contagious magic. e. rites of intensification.
For Jonathan Haas, the existence of a ruling elite that could force peasants to pay tribute and provide labor was foundational to the creation of __________
A. centralized religious ideology B. the chiefdom C. monumental architecture D. systems of writing and notation
Several horticultural societies in New Guinea, including the Etoro, consider heterosexual activity to __________
a. be the only permissible type of sexual relationship b. drain men of their life force c. be harmful to women d. blur the distinctions between genders