Because of a cultural focus on nurturing, the Minangkabau of West Sumatra have more cooperative gender relationships
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: T
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What term formerly referred to a culture that shared a single language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship?
A. nation B. homeland C. society D. country E. monoculture
Because of its ego-centered nature, which of the following is least likely to serve as a permanent or persistent group?
A) patrilineage B) matrilineage C) ambilineal descent group D) kindred
In explaining the origins of variation within species, Darwin:
a. had no idea of the true causes. b. agreed with Lamarck that it was caused by an animal's inner needs. c. used research he carried out while at Cambridge. d. argued it was caused by differential use of an animal's body parts. e. used Mendel's theory of heredity.
Grouping contemporaneous species into genera:
a. can be facilitated by identifying species that interbreed and produce live hybrid offspring. b. is never a subjective process. c. is always easy and accurate, although there is an acute lack of fossil evidence. d. is problematic and therefore not a common practice of physical anthropologists. e. requires similarities between species in one genus and species of another genus.