Author Question: Because music is a cultural universal and musical abilities seem to run in families, A. ... (Read 21 times)

anjilletteb · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Because music is a cultural universal and musical abilities seem to run in families,

A. everybody, regardless of culture, loves to dance.
B. it is possible to use musical abilities as a biological marker for human races.
C. it has been suggested that music is a concept of a social fiction.
D. anthropologists should investigate the connection between music and formerly misunderstood kinship arrangements.
E. it has been suggested that the predisposition for music may have a genetic basis.

Question 2

Findings of finely shaped bones dating from more than 100,000 years ago in South Africa's Blombos Cave suggest that

A. anatomically modern humans were good toolmakers but terrible artists.
B. australopiths had the ability of symbolic thought.
C. scientists need to be careful with tampered evidence about the emergence of culture.
D. anatomically modern humans had the ability, as early as 100,000 years ago, of symbolic thought.
E. bones were used for their functional, not aesthetic, value.