As her life progresses, a traditional Chinese woman's names __________
a. accumulate with prestige
b. change to reflect new statuses
c. take on good or bad references in her community
d. are dropped until they are all gone
d
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Why has it been difficult for paleoanthropologists to identify the "earliest" hominin species?
a. The fossil record for hominins between 10 and 6 million years ago has too many specimens to classify. b. No hominin finds date from 7 to 4.4 million years ago. c. Hominin fossils from the late Miocene are very fragmentary and show only slight differences from apes. d. There are no possible candidates still under analysis.
William Webb (1882-1964) excavated hundreds of burials at the Indian Knoll site in western Kentucky. How did Webb explain the presence of hunting weapons in the graves of women and children at the site?
a. Women and children hunted in life; they were therefore interred with the objects they would need in the afterlife. b. Burial ritual; the artifacts were symbols of grief rather than objects that the interred used during life because women and children would not have hunted. c. Misinterpretation of the archaeological evidence; the "hunting weapons" were not hunting weapons at all, but rather tools used to process plants. d. His interpretations of the site changed through time. e. Formerly a physicist, he used the analogy of the atomic bomb.
What advantages does cultural adaptation have over biological adaptation?
What will be an ideal response?