What is "windigo psychosis"?

What will be an ideal response?


Found in northern Algonquin culture, this disease, symptomatically compatible with paranoid schizophrenia, was believed to make individuals crave human flesh and become cannibalistic.

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What does the discovery of Homo floresiensis tell us about the adaptive potential of humans?

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Processual archaeology attempts to remain ethically neutral and claims to be explicitly non-political

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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"Race" is

A. based on biology, while ethnicity is based on culture. B. only important in the United States. C. an achieved status. D. a scientifically defined characteristic. E. culturally constructed.

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Which hypothesis argues that humans originated in Africa some 2 million years ago and then migrated, creating a single species of modern humans maintained by gene flow?

a. multiregional hypothesis b. Eve hypothesis c. recent African origins hypothesis d. out of Africa hypothesis

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