The American Anthropological Association has taken the official position that humans are born with a built-in culture

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False

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When Darwin presented his ideas to the Linnaean Society, he __________

a. also presented Wallace's ideas in a joint paper b. never mentioned Wallace c. described Wallace's ideas as better than his own d. revealed that all of his own ideas were derived from correspondence with Wallace

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________ refers to the specialized set of terms and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups.

A. Focal vocabulary B. Spatial vocabulary C. Temporal vocabulary D. Syntactical vocabulary E. Vernacular vocabulary

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What term refers to the study of a community, region, society, or culture over time?

A. Team research B. Etic research C. Longitudinal research D. Survey research E. Genealogical method

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Despite differences arising from environmental variation, all foraging economies have shared one essential feature:

A. their reliance on welfare supplied by state-level societies. B. their willingness to test out new food-producing technologies to see if they are any better than what they are used to. C. their emphasis on devising new forms of organic pesticides. D. their interest in developing irrigation technologies to control sources of water. E. their reliance on available natural resources for their subsistence, rather than controlling the reproduction of plants and animals.

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