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Pea0909berry

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on: Aug 11, 2018
What are the purposes of primate grooming?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Who were the earliest Mesolithic people known to have stored plant food, as evidenced by basin-shaped depressions in the rocks found outside homes and plastered storage pits beneath the floors of the houses?
 
  a. Natufian
  b. Cro-Magnon
  c. Aborigines
  d. Polynesians
  e. Babylonians


tmlewis4706

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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

It serves hygienic purposes to clean parasites and debris off the skin and is also a gesture of friendliness, closeness, reconciliation, and, at times, submission.

Answer to Question 2

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