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.

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Definitions:

External Sex Organs

Refer to the parts of the reproductive system located outside of the body, which are involved in sexual reproduction and function.

Internal Sex Organs

Refers to the organs within the body responsible for reproduction, including the uterus, ovaries, testes, and prostate.

Genital Ambiguity

A condition in which the external genitalia do not have the typical appearance of either a male or a female.

Androgens

A group of hormones that play a role in male traits and reproductive activity; testosterone is a primary androgen.