Unlike the centers of domestication in the Old World, very few animals were ever domesticated in the New World.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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Which of the following is classified as a "low-touch" culture?
a. French b. Jewish c. German d. Saudi Arabian e. Egyptian
Most people in Japan consider the quality of being Japanese to be __________
a. learned b. ascribed c. adopted d. achieved
Franz Boas believed that anthropologists should
a. develop theories using the written reports of missionaries, in particular. b. avoid living with the people they study so as not to influence them. c. gather more factual information about other cultures by conducting fieldwork. d. attempt to classify cultural development in stages.
The example of extended lactose tolerance in humans tell us that
A. a simple genetic trait accounts for the ability to digest milk. B. it is entirely under genetic control; researchers agree that the environment plays no role in its development. C. the production of the enzyme lactase and the ability to tolerate milk remain the same among all human populations. D. people cannot increase their lactose tolerance, thereby discounting the theory of phenotypical adaptation. E. it is one of many aspects of human biology governed by both genes and by phenotypical adaptation to environmental conditions.