Foraging Societies Display a Lower Frequency of Common Noninfectious Diseases

question 42

Multiple Choice

Foraging societies display a lower frequency of common noninfectious diseases than industrial societies.Explanations for this include all of the following except:

• A)differences in diet
• B)higher life expectancies in industrial societies
• C)the fact that foraging societies are more in tune with nature
• D)the fact that foragers are exposed to fewer carcinogens

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Definitions:

Labor

The human effort, physical or mental, used in the production of goods and services.

Marginal Product

Marginal Product is the additional output resulting from the use of one more unit of a production input, holding all other inputs constant.

Units of Output

The quantities of a good or service produced by a firm or economy.

Diminishing Returns

is an economic principle stating that if one input in the production of a commodity is increased while other inputs are held fixed, a point will eventually be reached at which additions of the input yield progressively smaller, or diminishing, increases in output.