Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 48

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-social hierarchies

• A)An economic system based on herding flocks of goats, sheep, cattle, or other animals.
• B)Group of Homo erectus with brains as large as those of modern humans that lived in Europe and western Asia between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago.
• C)Differentiation of tasks by gender, age, training, status, or other social distinction.
• D)Idea that people, animals, plants, natural occurrences, and other parts of the physical world have spirits.
• E)Divisions between rich and poor, elites and common people, that have been a central feature of human society since the Neolithic era.
• F)Social system in which men have more power and access to resources than women and some men are dominant over other men.
• G)Period during which humans used tools of stone, bone, and wood and obtained food by gathering and hunting. Roughly 250,000-9000 B.C.E.
• H)Dramatic transformation in human history resulting from the change from foraging to raising crops and animals.
• I)A style of life in which people gain food by gathering plant products, trapping or catching small animals and birds, and hunting larger prey.
• J)Spiritually adept men and women who communicated with the unseen world.
• K)Period beginning in 9000 B.C.E. during which humans obtained food by raising crops and animals and continued to use tools primarily of stone, bone, and wood.
• L)Members of the family Hominidae that contains humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
• M)Crop raising done with hand tools and human power.
• N)Die-off of large animals in many parts of the world about 45,000-10,000 B.C.E., caused by climate change and most likely human hunting.
• O)Plants and animals modified by selective breeding so as to serve human needs; these animals will behave in specific ways and breed in captivity.
• P)The practice of marrying within a certain ethnic or social group.

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Standard Deviation

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A probability distribution commonly used in statistical significance tests.

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