In most areas, one of the greatest causes of declining numbers of nonhuman primates (along with hunting by humans) is
a. the warfare between human groups (civil war).
b. the trapping of live primates for the entertainment industry.
c. habitat destruction.
d. the trapping of live primates for the pet trade.
e. the overpopulation of nonhuman primate groups.
C
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A. increased brain capacity B. tool making C. bipedalism D. sexual dimorphism
A language in which the sound pitch of a spoken word is an essential part of its pronunciation and meaning is called what type of language?
a. tonal b. whistled speech c. code switching d. paralanguage
Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that
A. becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture. B. is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena. C. is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots. D. challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world. E. requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.
The technology of traditional hunter-gatherers is distinctive in that it:
a. is able to harness extremely high levels of energy from a poor environment. b. is predominantly based on manual tools fashioned from their natural environment. c. requires high energy input from outside their habitat. d. is so rudimentary that they struggle endlessly for mere subsistence. e. is not adaptive to any particular environment, but is a form of broad-spectrum technology.