It appears the world's population growth has:
a. increased due to decreases in income and education.
b. not been a problem since the advent of agriculture.
c. increased due to the decline in mortality rates of children.
d. decreased due to increases in income and education.
e. increased due to the use of antibiotics.
d
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Au. africanus
A. lived in eastern Africa. B. had more sexual dimorphism than do modern humans. C. lived 6 m.y.a. D. had teeth very similar to modern humans. E. was a hyperrobust species of australopithecine.
Which of the following is an example of the biocultural approach to understanding human behavior?
a. studying human behaviors as the result of direct evolutionary pressures b. charting the relationship between agricultural practices and the evolution of the sickle cell polymorphism c. hypothesizing about the cultural abilities of ancient hominins by comparing them to living non-human primates d. focusing on the ecological factors that influence present-day hunter-gatherer societies
Define different kinds of research that fall under biological anthropology. Discuss how the various topics and methods relate to each other.
What will be an ideal response?
According to Mueller "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," originally rab were invisible spirits that lived in harmony with the nomadic humans and made their homes in trees. The nature of the relationship changed when
a. the humans angered the Madge-juenne, a grand rab, and she sent the faru rab to trouble them. b. modernization and globalization began to conflict with belief in spirits. c. humans needed land to grow more crops and began cutting down trees. d. the Senegalese fully embraced Islam and turned their backs on their traditional belief systems.