What is the "Gini Index"?
a. An index that measures the cost and profit of the largest megacorporations in the world? this index calculatesthe value and cost of each corporation
b. An income inequality index that measures how much disparity in income exists within a country.
c. An index which calculates how much pollution is expelled per person within a country.
d. A way of measuring global caloric output and distribution of food as a way of predicting malnutrition andobesity worldwide.
e. An index that is used by the United Nations as a way of evaluating the political situation in each country? thosewith higher numbers on the index are more prone to human rights abuses.
b
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Which species is the earliest known australopithecine?
A) A. afarensis B) A. africanus C) A. anamensis D) A. garhi
Studies of the ways in which children learn language show that:
a. A language must be consciously taught; otherwise a child will not learn it. b. Children in different societies learn to speak their native languages at different ages because some languages are harder to learn than others. c. Formal education is required for a child to learn to speak his or her native language grammatically. d. Human beings have an inborn predisposition for learning language and will speak grammatically even if not taught to do so. e. Boys learn to speak much earlier than girls.
Hominidae
a. is the family name for all the great apes. b. used to included modern Homo sapiens. c. includes Old World monkeys and the great apes. d. includes the great apes and the lesser apes only. e. includes New World monkeys and the apes.
The ______ approach best exemplifies an extreme emic perspective
a. cultural materialism b. functionalism c. ethnoscience d. psychological anthropology e. ethnocentrism