Which of the following concepts did NOT influence Darwin in developing his theory of evolution?
a. Species are unchanging types, and individual variation within a species is not important.
b. Population size increases more rapidly than food supplies.
c. There is biological variation in all members of a species.
d. Favorable variations are passed on and accumulate in populations over time.
e. There is competition among individuals for resources.
a
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The Sakha have had to adapt to physical and social changes over the years. Which of the following was a pre-Soviet-era adaptation?
a. consolidation of Sakha subsistence practices into sovkhozi, the agro-industrial state farm operations b. industrialization during the 1950s c. paying iasak, or fur tribute, to colonizers d. land loss due to border changes
Why does this chapter on culture include a section that describes similarities and differences between humans and apes, our closest relatives?
A. to promote the study of primatology, which has nothing to do with human culture B. to stress that there is no such thing as human nature C. to better define culture as a capacity that distinguishes members of the zoological family hominidae from anatomically modern humans D. to emphasize culture's evolutionary basis E. to illustrate how evolution is just a theory
Instead of asking about race, the Canadian census asks about
A. visible minorities. B. ethnicity. C. cultural diffusion. D. multiculturalism. E. genotype.
Cultural ecology is the most important form of subsistence strategy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.