A sick person who is given a medical explanation for his disease (for example, that he has tuberculosis) may still prefer to explain his illness as the result of witchcraft because it explains why he, and not someone else, got the disease

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


True

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a. sororal marriage b. sororal monogamy c. sororal polyandry d. sororal polygyny

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Researchers know Ardipithecus

A. was a knuckle-walking proto-chimpanzee. B. was a bipedal hominin with very apelike characteristics. C. was merely a male Australopithecus anamensis. D. is a New World monkey. E. is ancestral to Neandertals but not to Homo sapiens.

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Anthropologists who are interested in the ways in which people in different cultures classify their world often use a theory called:

a. Structuralism. b. Interpretive anthropology. c. Ethnoscience. d. Functionalism. e. Sociobiology.

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During which of the following epochs did the first archaic primates (65 to 55.5 m.y.a.) appear?

a. Pleistocene b. Holocene c. Miocene d. Paleocene e. Pliocene

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