Matrilineal descent affiliates individuals with __________
A) kin of both sexes related to them through women
B) only male kin related to them through both men and women
C) only female kin related to them through both men and women
D) kin of both sexes related to them through men
A
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Anthropologists use the term society to refer to customs and traditions passed from generation to generation through learning.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Today, only a very small percentage of the world's people live by foraging
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Primatology helps anthropologists make inferences about the early social organization of hominids and untangle issues of human nature and the origins of culture. Of particular relevance to these types of questions are two kinds of primates
A. those with whom we share the least number of homologies, and those with whom we share the most analogies. B. Gigantopithecus and Pierolapithecus. C. those that are in the tribe hominini, and those in the family hominidae. D. those whose ecological adaptations are similar to our own (terrestrial monkeys and apes), and those most closely related to us, the great apes (chimpanzees and gorillas). E. catarrhines and platyrrhines.
Compared to those of the Middle Stone Age, Late Stone Age and Upper Paleolithic tools __________
a. were crafted with less skill b. were less standardized c. changed more rapidly and more frequently d. included less tools made from shell and bone