How is culture adaptive and maladaptive?
What will be an ideal response?
Culture is the way humans relate to their environment. This can be efficient and
effective, or it can be destructive.
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In parts of Melanesia, pigs can be purchased using strings of shells, which cannot be used to buy any other goods or services. This is an example of __________
A) special-purpose money B) general-purpose money C) bartered commodities D) peasant money
The vision quest generally includes:
a. The use of hallucinogenic drugs. b. Physical suffering. c. A long voyage in the company of an elder. d. A belief that only the faithful will be saved. e. Electric shock.
What example from the Japanese in the 1950s and 1960s could be employed to relieve some of the financial pressure on Social Security in the United States?
A) extended family living B) having more children C) accumulating more wealth in one's lifetime D) private investment of Social Security funds
________ did NOT facilitate the spread of H. erectus from tropical into subtropical and temperate environments
A. The use of fire B. Living in rock shelters and caves C. Upper Paleolithic toolmaking traditions D. Increasingly efficient hunting methods E. A larger brain and essentially modern skeleton