What are the disadvantages of cultural adaptation over biological adaptation?
What will be an ideal response?
Cultural adaptation may involve practices that are not adaptive over the long-term and practices that hinder survival.
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or by the intervention of relatives or friends who guarantee they will provide the refugees with jobs. Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Cheifdoms
a. are rarely sedentary b. inevitably develop into states c. require elaborate hydraulic systems if they are to grow into states d. are the most common social arrangement of human populations e. were precursors to states, with privileged and effective leaders-chiefs- but lacking the sharp class divisions that characterize states
In a study of a family planning clinic in rural India, Mahmood Mamdani found that
a. Indian couples used contraception when it was provided for them. b. Indian women accepted birth control devices and used them without their husbands’ permission. c. children are considered an economic burden in the rural areas of India. d. Indian couples thought it desirable to have lots of children.
What term refers to the arrangement and order of words into sentences?
A. morphology B. grammar C. phonology D. syntax E. lexicon