Monkeys, apes, and humans are taxonomically grouped together as:
a. hominoids
b. anthropoids
c. anthropoids
d. hominids
b
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Matrilineal inheritance rules mean that in Tlingit society on the Pacific Northwest coast, a man's inheritance passes to his __________
a. son b. daughter c. sister's husband d. sister's son
Colonial archaeologists study pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Anthropologists once thought that domestication would happen almost automatically once people gained sufficient knowledge of plants and animals and their reproductive habits to figure out how to make domestication work. They now know that
A. they were correct, thanks to recently uncovered evidence in Chile. B. aside from this knowledge, an emerging state is necessary for domestication to occur. C. some other trigger is needed to start and sustain the process of domestication. D. the will to overcome a lazy lifestyle is even more important than such knowledge. E. aside from this knowledge, domestication requires the invention of the wheel.
An opposable thumb is characteristic of:
A. lemurs B. New World monkeys C. Old World monkeys D. all of these