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This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes illustrates
 
  A. human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and physiological adaptations.
  B. how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.
  C. how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some 10,000 years ago.
  D. how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture.
  E. the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme environments.

Question 2

As humans organize their lives and adapt to different environments, our abilities to learn, think symbolically, use language, and employ tools and other products
 
  A. rest on certain features of human biology that make culture itself a biological phenomenon.
  B. have made some human groups more cultured than others.
  C. prove that only fully developed adults have the capacity for culture; children lack the capacity for culture until they mature.
  D. rest on certain features of human biology that make culture, which is not itself biological, possible.
  E. are shared with other animals capable of organized group lifesuch as baboons, wolves, and even ants.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D




vinney12

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Reply 2 on: Aug 11, 2018
Wow, this really help


peter

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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