Which of the Following Statements About Attempts to Assign Humans

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories purportedly based on common ancestry is true?

• A) They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
• B) They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics.
• C) They are based on global racial categories that vary little from one society to another.
• D) They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization.
• E) They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume they are based in biology.

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