If a population of early humans reduced from 50,000 to 500 individuals because of a natural disaster, we might find that the resulting and future populations show (when compared with the original population):
A. no changes in gene frequencies
B. greater genotypic and phenotypic variations
C. less genotypic and phenotypic variations
D. a further reduction in population size, leading to extinction
C. less genotypic and phenotypic variations
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___________________ is an example of the earliest fossil hominoid.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
According to Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault,
A. it is easier and more effective to dominate people in their minds than to try to control their bodies. B. if state institutions such as prisons and schools are able to control people's bodies, their minds will follow. C. anthropologists have no business studying the process of how the dominant ideology becomes internalized, since this is the job of psychologists and political scientists. D. overt violence is critical in order for a state to succeed in dominating its population. E. anatomically modern humans have a long way to go in the process of evolution, since they are so easily tricked into believing that forms of state control are both natural and good.