Anthropologists have observed that tribal leaders build and maintain power through which of the following?
A. personal achievements
B. being elected to political institutions
C. strong enforcement of religious beliefs
D. learning to live within the control of a centralized state
Answer: A. personal achievements
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a. Eugenics b. Pleiotropy c. Heritability d. Qualitative variation
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a. the inherent predisposition of humans to develop domestication in response to environmental triggers b. society's ability to face increasing resource needs c. the environmental changes that occurred at the end of the Pleistocene d. people being unaware of other choices to lifestyles e. grazing herbivores
Picking up the "White Man's Burden" meant:
a. Bringing civilization to the colonized. b. Shipping slaves from Africa to the Americas. c. Building factories and railroads. d. Finding ways to invest the profits derived from colonialism. e. Using force to control native populations under colonial rule.
Which of the following is NOT a principle upon which social groups are formed?
a. Wealth b. sharing c. Cohesion d. Reciprocity