What are the three primary problems with the biological concept of race as a category of human classification?

What will be an ideal response?


There is an arbitrary selection of traits used to define races, an inability to describe intra-species variation through racial categories, and repeated independent evolution of so-called racial traits in a population with no genetic relationship.

Anthropology & Archaeology

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After the mass extinction event 65 million years ago, ________ quickly became extinct.

A. the placentals B. the monotremes C. the marsupials D. the multituberculates

Anthropology & Archaeology

What are genderlects? Give an example

What will be an ideal response?

Anthropology & Archaeology

If you were investigating why the thumbs-up and okay hand signals used in North America are considered rude gestures in certain other parts of the world, you would be engaging in a comparative study of which of the following?

What will be an ideal response?

Anthropology & Archaeology

“Spanglish” is a form of code switching

a. True b. False

Anthropology & Archaeology