Which of the following statements about polygyny is false?
a. Usually only well-to-do men have more than one wife.
b. A wife may welcome co-wives as a way of easing her workload.
c. A woman's most prestigious available marriage partner is likely to have more than one wife.
d. Polygyny is resorted to only as a solution for childlessness of one of the wives.
D
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Which of the following is a reason that the Madagascar project to increase rice production was successful?
A. Malagasy leaders were of "the people" and were therefore prepared to follow the descent-group ethic of pooling resources for the good of the group as a whole. B. The elites and the lower class were of different origins and thus had no strong connections through kinship, descent, or marriage. C. There is a clear fit between capitalist development schemes and corporate descent-group social organization. D. The project took into account the inevitability of native forms of social organization breaking down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and alienation. E. The educated members of Malagasy society are those who have struggled to fend for themselves and therefore brought an innovative kind of independence to the project.
Which will result in a transformation of a population?
a. directional selection b. stabilizing selection c. both of these d. neither of these
A __________ is a group of people who occupy a particular territory and speak a common language.
A) family B) culture C) society D) subculture
What is the primary purpose of vitamin D in humans?
a. to develop acute eyesight b. to maintain the balance of calcium in the body c. to prevent the development of respiratory illnesses d. to enhance the production of collagen for hair