Social relationships are crucial to nonhuman primates for all of the following reasons except:
a. Individuals support each other against outsiders
b. Alliances can be used to enhance the status of members
c. Resources can be protected
d. Order can be imposed by allowing individuals to attack each other
e. Predator avoidance
d
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Which of the following statements about society and culture is incorrect?
a. Culture can exist without a society. b. Every culture is learned, shared, based on symbols, integrated, and dynamic. c. All culture is learned rather than biologically inherited. d. A culture is shared by the members of a society. e. Although members of a society may share a culture, their behavior is not uniform.
Bands and tribes are politically associated with all of the following EXCEPT _____
a. a small number of specialized political roles b. a high level of political integration c. little political coerciveness d. an absence of formal governmental structures e. informal mechanisms of social control
Groups who cooperate and have mutual obligations based on their descent from a shared ancestor who lived three or four generations ago are called
a. extended families. b. lineages. c. clans. d. chiefdoms.
Scientific collaboration is all of the following EXCEPT:
A. performing experiments and observations together. B. getting multiple views on various issues. C. minimizing the quality of tests and data. D. using the published results of other scientists' work.