Altruism is a behavior that:
a. ?is not common among primates.
b. ?benefits both the performer and another individual while involving risk to both.
c. ?benefits the performer while involving risk to another individual.
d. ?benefits another while involving some risk to the performer.
e. ?creates potential risk to dependent offspring.
d
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Cultural resource management is an example of applied
A. ethnology. B. biological anthropology. C. archaeology. D. linguistic anthropology. E. ethnography.
The molecular basis of a gene was not known until:
a. observed in a microscope by the Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel. b. deduced rather than observed by the naturalist, Charles Darwin. c. discovered during the 20th century when the electron microscope was invented. d. observed in the sex cells of eels by Sigmund Freud. e. deduced rather than observed by Gregor Mendel as a result of his experiments with garden peas.
Research among the Ariaal of Kenya that compared the health and nutritional status of children living in towns with those in nomadic settlements showed that
A) nomadic children had more parasites than town children because they lived with the cattle. B) nomadic children were better nourished than town children, because they had access to camel's milk. C) nomadic children were healthier than town children, although they were malnourished. D) the nomadic children were less healthy than town children because they were not immunized. E) nomadic children suffered more in a drought year than town children.