Human populations living in temperate, northern climates generally have light skin color because it
A. protects against hypervitaminosis.
B. helps to prevent sickle-cell anemia.
C. exists in a balanced polymorphism.
D. helps to prevent rickets.
E. helps to protect against skin cancer.
Answer: D
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a. True b. False
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Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that
A. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule. B. biology has nothing to do with gender roles. C. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality. D. patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general-not universal. E. the division of labor by gender is a natural characteristic of human societies.