A scientist focusing on the evolutionary history of specific significant traits is engaged in

a. Lysenkoism
b. phylogeny
c. homology
d. cladistics


d. cladistics

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Among the Igbo of Nigeria:

a. men and women each had separate, autonomous spheres of political activity. b. women were bought and sold as slaves. c. women were imprisoned in their homes and allowed out only on marketing days. d. men and women lived in separate villages. e. men had no political role in the village, which was controlled and ruled by women.

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What do scientists think stimulated the huge selection pressure for increases in human brain size, like that seen going from Australopithecus to Homo habilis?

What will be an ideal response?

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Where are Old World monkeys found?

a. Africa and northern Europe b. Mexico and South America c. North America and Mexico d. India and southern Asia only e. Sub Saharan Africa, southern Asia, and northern Japan

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Societies in which the accumulation of goods is difficult are likely to have a practice of bride service, rather than bridewealth

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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