This Chapter's Description of How Humans Cope with Low Oxygen

question 48

Multiple Choice

This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes illustrates

• A) human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and physiological adaptations.
• B) how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.
• C) how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some 10,000 years ago.
• D) how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture.
• E) the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme environments.