How do pidgins differ from creoles?
a. Pidgins and creoles are the same.
b. Pidgins are not full languages.
c. Pidgins combine sounds, grammatical forms, and vocabulary from different languages.
d. Pidgins arise during periods of close contact between individuals that speak different languages.
Answer: b
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a. naive realism. b. cultural behavior. c. explicit culture. d. tacit culture.
Where are there very pronounced rates of female infanticide?
a. Ethiopia. b. India. c. Australia. d. Bulgaria. e. Italy.
Stone tools are sometimes found associated with animal bones. While this might mean that the animals were killed by hominins, what else could explain their association?
A) Flowing water brought the stones and animal bones to the same location. B) The animals made the stone tools themselves. C) Both the animal bones and the stone tools were stored there by hominins. D) Scavenging animals placed the bones and the tools in a cache together.
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