Which of the following helps reduce conflict in foraging societies?
A. a formal court system
B. the flexibility of group composition
C. lower fertility rates and smaller populations
D. beliefs in divine punishments
Answer: B
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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A) It provides the data needed to describe the typical behavior and thought of a group of people. B) It allows researchers to become more sympathetic to their research subjects' concerns. C) Fieldwork is a training period to prepare ethnologists for jobs as professors. D) It is a rite of passage for anthropologists, as it is a traditional component of anthropological work.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is NOT true about carpolestids?
a. They were mouse to rat sized. b. They exhibited specialized dental traits. c. A skeleton of one was discovered in Wyoming recently. d. Their postcranial anatomy reveals many traits adapted to highly arboreal environment. e. They were much bigger than the Plesiadapis,