__________ specialize in the study of humans closest living non-human relatives.
a. Primatologists
b. Paleoanthropologists
c. Biologists
d. Paleontologists
Ans: a. Primatologists
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A Scottish butler in an English mansion says to the lady of the house, “You may wish to stay inside today, Madam? it’s quite cold outside.” But when he goes back to his own cottage he is likely to say to his wife in broad Scots, “Shut the door and get inside, Maggie, you’ll freeze your buns off.” In linguistics, this is an example of:
a. code switching. b. class consciousness. c. glottochronology. d. phonological analysis. e. linguistic nationalism.
Cultural emphasis refers to:
a. the relationship between vocabulary and culture. b. the importance of technology terminologies to rural communities. c. understanding that one’s language determines their cultural worldview. d. a speech problem that causes a person to not be able to associate words with meanings. e. the inability of a person to learn more than one language during a lifetime.
In societies with unilineal descent, __________
A) some very close biological relatives are excluded from one's kin group B) all individuals who reside together are considered kin C) the kin group rarely acts as a unit D) no biological relatives are excluded from the kin group
In a study of the differences between populations of humans, Richard Lewontin found that the total amount of genetic variation between groups is:
a. 37%. b. 23%. c. 14%. d. 11%. e. 7%.