Biological anthropologists are most interested in studying variation at the individual level
a. True
b. False
Answer b
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Why is it so difficult to pinpoint the emergence of the earliest languages?
A) Written language only appeared about 5,000 years ago. B) Modern apes have a rudimentary language, so it must date to at least the divergence of the human and ape lineages. C) There are clear structural differences in the brains of people who speak and people who don't, but we have no fossilized evidence of brain structure. D) Every culture reports that they have been able to speak since the beginning of time.
Which of the following are NOT capable of brachiation?
a. gibbons b. humans c. chimpanzees d. lorises e. bonobos
The idea held by modern governments and economic planners that pastoralism retards national economic development is based on ___________ more than ___________
a. ideology; fact b. fact; ideology c. historical periods; modern periods d. religious perspectives; economic perspectives
With unilineal descent, sex with cross cousins is proper, but sex with parallel cousins is considered incestuous. Why?
A. Cross cousins are considered closer relatives than all other kin. B. Cross cousins are actually parallel cousins. C. Parallel cousins are considered closer relatives than cross cousins. D. This behavior is a human universal explained by Freud's theory of attempt and contempt. E. Societies with unilineal descent share a gene that impedes them from developing sexual urges for parallel cousins.