The australopithecines likely to have consumed the most meat in its diet was the __________ australopithecine
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
gracile
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic typical of plesiadapiforms?
a. claws b. small brains c. prognathic faces d. large eye sockets
Which of the following claims could be considered evidence that differences between boy and girl babies are the product of cultural construction and not biology?
A) Boy babies weigh more at birth and cry more because of increased stress associated with their birth. B) Boy babies cry more because they are more aggressive. C) Girl babies smile more because they are less aggressive. D) Girl babies smile more because caretakers tend to smile at them more.
Recall the mechanisms of genetic evolution discussed in the previous chapter. What is the relationship between gene flow and the existence of clines between human populations?
A. Gene flow causes abrupt differences in gene frequencies between neighboring groups. B. Clines accelerate gene flow and genetic change due to chance. C. Gene flow, the exchange of genetic material across populations, results in clines, which are gradual shifts in gene frequencies between neighboring groups. D. Gene flow increases the genetic isolation of neighboring groups, resulting in discrete genetic differences in the population, instead of clines. E. There is no relationship between gene flow and clines.
Which is the key assumption in Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism?
A. All myths can be classified as either good or evil. B. The human propensity to classify phenomena in certain ways is acquired through enculturation. C. There is a very specific role for human agency in culture, and the structure of cultural patterns determines that role. D. Cultural patterns determine the human propensity to classify things in certain ways. E. Human minds have certain universal characteristics that originate in common features of the Homo sapiens brain and lead people everywhere to think similarly regardless of their society or cultural background.