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melina_rosy

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Why does this chapter on culture include a section that describes similarities and differences between humans and apes, our closest relatives?
 
  A. to emphasize culture's evolutionary basis
  B. to better define culture as a capacity that distinguishes members of the zoological family hominidae from anatomically modern humans
  C. to stress that there is no such thing as human nature
  D. to promote the study of primatology, which has nothing to do with human culture
  E. to illustrate how evolution is just a theory

Question 2

Culture can be adaptive or maladaptive. It is maladaptive when
 
  A. it exhibits cultural traits that are not shared with the majority of the group.
  B. it threatens the core values of a culture that guarantee its integration.
  C. cultural traits diminish the survival of particular individuals but not others.
  D. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions disrupt the world economy, causing international discontent.
  E. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions threaten the group's continued survival and reproduction and thus its very existence.



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potomatos

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: E




melina_rosy

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Reply 2 on: Aug 11, 2018
:D TYSM


Perkypinki

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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