The view that the extinction and the subsequent appearance of more modern forms could be explained by a series of disasters and creations is known as
a. natural selection.
b. catastrophism.
c. use-disuse theory.
d. uniformitarianism.
e. descent with modification.
b
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The foundations of the state-a social and political unit featuring a central government, extreme contrasts of wealth, and social classes-emerged
A. in the hilly flanks, because that was the area that could best sustain a growing population. B. out of an attempt to copy, on a larger scale, the lifestyle that early sedentism offered its members prior to the sudden population growth caused by food production. C. in the alluvial desert plain of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where a new economy based on irrigation and trade fueled the growth of this entirely new form of society. D. against the will of the people, who correctly foresaw the many ills this new form of society would bring upon them. E. below the intersection of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where the abundance of water helped keep a complex irrigation system working.
Today, cultural anthropologists are involved in numerous avenues of research including all of the following except
a. the study of subcultures b. the resettlement of refugees c. the relationship between cultural attributes and health and disease d. the study of their own cultures e. the study of city or urban areas that are no longer remote
Against what does gene flow act?
A. migration B. natural selection C. speciation D. balanced polymorphisms E. mutations
The matrilineal Diné’s tradition of exogamy rules that exclude marriage within both the mother’s and the father’s lineages may be evidence of former __________
a. patrilineal descent reckoning b. parallel descent reckoning c. ambilineal descent reckoning d. bilateral descent reckoning