Virtually all nomadic pastoralists are organized in kin-based sociopolitical communities called
A) tribes. B) bands. C) legions. D) nations. E) states.
A
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What are the Torajan tau taus?
A) Handmade effigies (like dolls) believed to contain the spirits of dead nobles B) Large, life-size pots that are made by women specifically as effigies (containers for the dead, like urns) C) Large wooden carvings of the burial cliffs from which the dead are thrown D) Ceremonial masks worn during the tongkonan (burial dance) E) Very large, flowing dresses and capes that they use to bury the dead
Explain how the Inca came to power and how they obtained and maintained their authority over other groups.
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The study of sickle-cell anemia and its relation to malarial environments demonstrates that
A. homozygotes lack the capacity to digest lactose. B. a maladaptive allele may be preserved if it provides an advantage. C. selection removes recessive alleles from the gene pool faster than it does dominant alleles. D. heterozygotes are not as selectively fit as are dominant homozygotes. E. natural selection improves a gene pool by wiping out deleterious alleles.
Food production was NOT independently invented in the
A. eastern United States. B. southern China. C. Middle East. D. Indus Valley. E. central Mexico.