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A) men strive to change the surrounding ecology more than women.
B) in harsher climates,there are more egalitarian sex roles than in more benign climates.
C) cold weather is associated with increases in aggression and warfare among men.
D) egalitarian sex roles are more common where food is plentiful and easily acquired.
E) the most chauvinistic societies tend to be in areas with the most variable rainfall.
G) B) and C)
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A) Both types of evolution occur extremely quickly,within a single generation.
B) Biological evolution is faithful,while cultural evolution is not faithful.
C) Both forms of evolution only result in greater numbers of surviving offspring.
D) Biological evolution is quicker than cultural evolution because the possibility of horizontal cultural transmission from multiple people overwhelms learners.
E) Biological evolution leads to more useful ideas than cultural evolution does.
G) A) and B)
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A) Boston continues to reflect its Puritan origins,whereas Philadelphia continues to reflect its Quaker origins.
B) the increasing globalization of world cultures
C) Baseball in Japan retains some distinctive Japanese elements.
D) the binge drinking habits among underage college students
E) Southern Italy remains less civic compared with northern Italy in ways that reflect the regional differences that were evident eight hundred years ago.
G) C) and D)
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A) proximal causes
B) transmitted culture
C) distal causes
D) evoked culture
E) epidemiology of ideas
G) D) and E)
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A) theory of mind.
B) transmitted culture.
C) the ratchet effect.
D) the Flynn effect.
E) evoked culture.
G) All of the above
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A) cultural norms for manners have changed over time.
B) residents of one community have more conservative political attitudes than residents of a nearby community.
C) Pizarro and a small band of Spanish soldiers were able to conquer the Incan empire.
D) cultural evolution can occur much faster than biological evolution.
E) people score higher on IQ tests today than they did a generation ago.
G) None of the above
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A) A culture promotes harmony with the environment to appease the gods.
B) Males from a village in the West Indies find thick lips to be attractive because thick lips evoke the most physiological arousal from males in the village.
C) Tribe members learn from recent fatalities not to eat red salamanders.
D) A culture uses the possession of meat as a status symbol due to the abundance of vegetation.
E) Hockey players learn from the media that it is cowardly to fight wearing helmets.
G) B) and D)
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A) Elderly Americans are less socially engaged now than they were forty years ago.
B) On average,Americans are less likely to belong to formal organizations than they were forty years ago.
C) Americans socialize more now than they did forty years ago.
D) Americans are more trusting now than they were forty years ago.
E) Few Americans bowl now,whereas forty years ago the vast majority of American adults bowled.
G) A) and E)
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A) are intuitive.
B) are counterintuitive.
C) are mostly intuitive,with the occasional counterintuitive idea included.
D) are mostly counterintuitive,with the occasional intuitive idea included.
E) initially appear counterintuitive but later seem intuitive.
G) B) and D)
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A) People are getting more nutrition in their diets now than before.
B) The modern world is becoming increasingly complex,requiring more learning and problem-solving skills.
C) Modern popular culture has become more challenging for consumers than in previous generations.
D) IQ scores have been increasing around the world over the last century.
E) The amount of education required for jobs has increased for both men and women.
G) A) and C)
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A) The Nuer and Dinka share the same ecological conditions,but they have widely different cultures.
B) Latin American culture is very similar to indigenous cultures of South and Central America.
C) The crew of Captain Sir John Franklin survived in the cold for two years without the help of the natives.
D) Evoked culture speaks to what has been biologically encoded into us,but transmitted culture does not.
E) Roald Amundsen,the Norwegian explorer,lived two years in the Arctic due to the knowledge given to him by the Netsilik.
G) B) and E)
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A) pluralistic ignorance
B) emotional ideas spread more easily
C) horizontal transmission
D) the autokinetic effect
E) vertical transmission
G) A) and D)
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