What evidence supports the idea that A. afarensis was at least partially arboreal?
A) They had fully opposable thumbs.
B) Their arms and legs were about the same length.
C) They have two bones in their lower limb.
D) Their feet have a distinctive arch.
B) Their arms and legs were about the same length.
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Between 54 million and 34 million years ago Europe and America
a. were separated by only a narrow sea b. had very different climates c. supported different sets of primates d. were connected by land
Which of the following is an historically nomadic patriarchal group?
a. ?Bedouin b. ?!Kung San c. ?Imperial China d. Hua
William Tulio Divale and Marvin Harris propose that violence in a given society correlates to:
a) the degree of male bias present in social norms and practices. b) the disparity in people’s access to necessary resources. c) the relative level of industrial development. d) the level of racial diversity in a society.
In South Sudan, a Nuer woman can marry a woman if her father has only daughters but no male heirs. This is done to maintain the patrilineage. The "wife" has sex with one or more men until she gets pregnant. The children born are then accepted as the offspring of both the female husband and the wife. What is important in this example is
A. the fact that only same-sex marriages are recognized in patrilineal societies. B. social rather than biological paternity, again illustrating how kinship is socially constructed. C. how biology overrides culture regardless of human intentions. D. how often marriage is simply about property. E. that it illustrates how romantic love is both universal and complicated.