A Biocultural Adaptation Can Best Be Understood as

question 12

Multiple Choice

A biocultural adaptation can best be understood as

• A) Modifications to the physiology of individual human organisms produced by natural selection that better adjusts them to their environment.
• B) A culturally mediated human adaption to the environment.
• C) A form of adaptation that relies on processes different from natural selection.
• D) Having a tendency to undermine the ability of human groups to cope with environmental challenges.
• E) Disruptive to stable ways of life.

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Definitions:

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Midlife

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Grandparents

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Havighurst's Vision

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