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:

Visually Guided Reaching

The coordination of eye and hand movements to reach for and grasp objects based on visual cues.

Voluntary Control

Voluntary control refers to the ability to consciously control movements, thoughts, or actions, as opposed to automatic or reflexive responses.

Orphans

Children who have lost both parents through death or have been abandoned by their parents.

Brain Development

The process involving the growth and maturation of the brain, including changes in size, complexity, and functionality.