The gene pool concept
a. refers to the total complement of genes shared by non-reproductive members of a population.
b. is no longer used by modern anthropologists.
c. refers to the total complement of genes shared by reproductive members of a population.
d. refers to the total complement of mutations shared by reproductive members of a population.
e. refers to any type of genetic mutation.
C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The key early domesticates at Ban-po-ts'un were:
A. corn and guinea pigs. B. grapes and cattle. C. millet and pigs. D. wheat and goats.
What are the dates of the Precambrian?
a. 4.5 million to 60,000 years ago b. 248 million to 65 million years ago c. 4.5 billion to 543 million years ago d. 5.43 billion to 45 million years ago
Just as in other areas of anthropology, the study of language involves investigating what is or isn't shared across human populations and why these differences or similarities exist. The linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language, so that all languages have a common structural basis. He calls this set of rules
A. the evolutionary linguistic imprint. B. linguistic structuralism. C. generalities. D. a global mental map. E. the universal grammar.