Why is religion itself so difficult to define?
a. It does not actually exist, so there is nothing tangible to study.
b. It cannot be approached through a scientific point of view and is not a subject for scientists.
c. It is so varied that there is no way to fully understand another religion.
d. It is embedded in the total social structure and difficult to distinguish.
e. So much of religion occurs within the individual that it cannot be studied as a single phenomenon.
d
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The existence of Homo sapiens as an interbreeding species is due to gene flow.?
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A playwright who has “the gift of ignorance” is LEAST LIKELY to find production:
a. in a regional theatre b. in an Off-Broadway theatre c. in a Broadway theatre d. in a university theatre e. in a new play festival
The anthropologists of the 19th century believed that cultures transformed over time into more complex and superior cultures. This type of thinking is called
a. materialism. b. unilineal evolutionism. c. functionalism. d. particularism.
Radiometric dating techniques available to anthropologists
A. work only for nonhuman primates, because genus Homo had culture. B. have caused a re-evaluation of the fossil record since their 1991 development. C. can only be used to date inorganic materials that are more than 1 million years old. D. do not work well for hominin fossils, because such fossils are too young for the effective range of the techniques. E. establish a probable date for fossils by calculating radioactive decay in the specimen found or the rocks surrounding it.