Today, from a molecular approach, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans are classified as:
a. prosimians
b. haplorhines
c. strepsirhini
d. hominids
b
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If you read a news report announces a large company is expanding, which of the following is likely to be true regarding the company?
likely to be true regarding the company? A) Its long-run marginal costs are equal to its long run average cost. B) It is experiencing constant returns to scale. C) Its long-run marginal costs are greater to its long run average cost. D) Its long-run marginal costs are less to its long run average cost.
Which of these statements about matriarchy is true?
a. Anthropologists have long recognized the existence of early matriarchal societies. b. A matriarchal society by definition should be the mirror image of a patriarchal society. c. No instance of systematic female political dominance over men has been documented. d. Anthropologists are in agreement on the valid definition of matriarchy.
The view that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, has its own distinctive history, and that social forms (such as totemism in different societies) that might look similar are not comparable because of their different histories, is known as
A. structural functionalism. B. the Boasian approach. C. comparative functionalism. D. cultural generalism. E. historical particularism.
An important point stressed by Lee about the Ju/'Hoansi !Kung he studied in 1963 was that
a. both adults and children had to work every day to ensure a sufficient food supply. b. the !Kung had to use virtually all of the edible plants and animals in their environment in order to survive in the desert. c. life in the state of nature was not necessarily nasty, brutish, and short. d. meat provided more calories in the !Kung diet than other foods.