Since the nineteenth century, there has been a tendency in the United States to classify offspring of racially mixed couples as belonging to the race of the parent with the lowest racial status. What is this called?
A. the multiculturalist concept
B. the circumstantialist model
C. the primordialist model
D. the hypodescent concept
Answer: D
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Culture
A. is the exclusive domain of the elite. B. is acquired by humans as members of society through the process of enculturation. C. is being destroyed by electronic media. D. developed among nonhuman primates around 10,000 years ago. E. is more developed in industrial nations than among hunters and gatherers.
Postmodernists emphasize:
a. solitary research by one ethnographer. b. the rejection of generalizing and developing predictable theories. c. a close relation to biology that focuses on cultures as a biological necessity. d. the extreme etic approach. e. the local people only, disregarding any kind of global effects.
For Eugene Dubois, a Dutch citizen, Sumatra was a practical place to look for fossils because it was under Dutch rule
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Bipedalism, considered a key defining characteristic that differentiated early hominins from other apes,
A. may have evolved as a result of anatomical changes caused by stone tool manufacturing. B. evolved as a result of anatomical changes caused by an increase in brain size. C. perhaps developed in the woodlands but became even more adaptive in a savanna habitat. D. resulted in greater exposure to heat stress because on two feet, hominins spent increasingly more time in the open grasslands. E. was accompanied by a sharp increase in hominins' climbing abilities.