If mating is random, then
a. mate choice is based on social factors such as religion or level of education.
b. mate choice is biased.
c. mating is promiscuous.
d. any female has an equal chance of mating with any male.
e. mating must be monogamous.
D
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Sociolinguistic study of English language use has shown that
A) unlike other languages, in English gender makes no differences in language use. B) boys tend to pronounce the -g in words such as talking, singing, and going more often than girls do. C) people tend to imitate the speech patterns of more prestigious social groups. D) in conversation women interrupt men more often than men interrupt women. E) B and D.
What is the difference between foraging and food production?
A) Foraging uses only wild plants and animals, while food production cultivates and domesticates them. B) Food production depends only on plant foods, while foraging involves both plants and animals. C) Foraging allows for more control over processes like animal breeding and plant seeding. D) Food production requires a strict division of labor by gender, while foraging is rarely split by gender.
Which anthropologist worked with the Aroostook band of Micmacs in Maine?
a. Alan Kolata b. Clementine van Eck c. Fred Plog d. Weston LaBarre e. Harald Prins
Like bifurcate merging kinship terminology, generational kinship terminology
A. is common in North America. B. makes sense only from the perspective of ego. C. illustrates the complicated ways in which adults confuse their children about the realities of biology. D. uses the same term for parents and their siblings, but lumping is more complete (there are only two terms for the parental generation). E. uses the same term for parents and grandparents, so there is less lumping than in the bifurcate merging kinship system.