Question 1

Lucy was dated using potassium/argon. But this is really an example of:

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Question 2

List the characteristics that distinguish a cultural behavior from a non-cultural one.

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Question 3

This morning you got up and made and ate breakfast. Eating is a biological necessity, but eating breakfast was cultural. Support this evaluation by applying the characteristics of culture to the behavior of eating breakfast.

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Question 4

What characteristics does the trained behavior of a dog share with cultural behaviors? What characteristics of culture does the dog's behavior lack?

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Question 5

Why is the definition of culture as "learned behavior"
an insufficient one?

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Question 6

Evaluate the "termite fishing sticks"
of the chimpanzees and the food washing of the Japanese macaques in terms of the characteristics of culture.

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Question 7

How does the Japanese macaques' use of water to wash food different from the chimpanzees' use of their "termite fishing sticks"?

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Question 8

If other species have behaviors that can be defined as cultural, how is human cultural behavior different?

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Question 9

Describe Paul MacLean's triune brain model. What does this model tell us about the evolution of the brain?

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Question 10

What does the author of text mean by the idea that "we can experience events in our nervous systems"? What does this have to do with our cultural abilities?

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Question 11

In what way is culture not only our basic adaptive mechanism but our environment as well?

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Question 12

In general terms, why is it that two societies living in the same kind of natural environment probably have very different cultural systems?

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Question 13

Why does the author make "world view"
the central focus of his model for analyzing cultural systems?

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the...

Question 14

What do we mean by world view?

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Question 15

How does world view differ from religion? How are the two related?

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Question 16

Characterize the world view of the Eskimo and indicate how it is reflected in aspects of their cultural system.

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Question 17

What major event in Southwest Asia radically changed the world views of some of the peoples of that region? How did this event alter those world views?

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Question 18

Characterize the world views of farming and herding peoples of Southwest Asia and indicate how they were reflected in their cultural systems.

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Question 19

Indicate some characteristics of an American world view. What is some evidence for your assessment?

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Question 20

What is the point of the author's anthropological analysis of the necktie?

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Quiz 4: Themes of Anthropology: Culture