American parents and teachers tend to use more diminutives when speaking to girls and more direct prohibitions when speaking to boys
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: T
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Although the incest taboo is a cultural universal, cultures define incest differently. For example, in many cultures it is incestuous to marry parallel cousins but not cross cousins. What is the difference?
A. Parallel cousins are socially recognized relatives, but cross cousins are true biological cousins. B. Parallel cousins are true biological cousins, whereas cross cousins are simply socially recognized relatives. C. The children of two brothers or two sisters are parallel cousins. The children of a brother and a sister are cross cousins. D. The children of a brother and a sister are parallel cousins. The children of two brothers or two sisters are cross cousins. E. There is no symbolic difference between the two, only a biological difference.
What is distinctive about the anthropological approach to social change is its holistic perspective[]the effort to understand the complexity of the social context in which change takes place
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The cerebral cortex is mostly made up of __________
a. bones and ligaments b. fatty tissue c. dendrites d. cell bodies of neurons
In the early twentieth century, anthropologist Franz Boas described changes in skull form among the children of Europeans who had migrated to North America. He found that the reason for these changes could not be explained by genetics. His findings underscore the fact that
A. phenotypic similarities and differences don't necessarily have a genetic basis. B. though the environment influences phenotype, genetics is a more powerful determinant of racial differences. C. diet affects which genes get turned off and which on, resulting in a particular phenotypic characteristic. D. describing changes in skull form is the most accurate way to study the impact of migration on traveling populations. E. observing changes over one generation is not enough to make conclusions about changes in genotype and phenotype.