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Primatology Helps Anthropologists Make Inferences About the Early Social Organization

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Primatology helps anthropologists make inferences about the early social organization of hominids and untangle issues of human nature and the origins of culture.Of particular relevance to these types of questions are two kinds of primates:


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Indifference Curves

Graphs representing combinations of different goods that provide an individual with the same level of satisfaction, showing consumer preferences.

Total Utility

The cumulative satisfaction or value that a person derives from consuming a certain quantity of goods or services.

Indifference Curve

A graph showing combinations of goods between which a consumer is indifferent, representing equal levels of satisfaction.

Convex

In economics, a shape of the curve describing a relationship that yields increasing returns or benefits, where the slope increases as you move from left to right.

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