Anthropologist Leslie White Wrote That the Most Distinctive Feature of Humanness

question 20

Multiple Choice

Anthropologist Leslie White wrote that the most distinctive feature of humanness is __________.

• A) the capacity for vocal communication
• B) the ability to create symbols and assign them meanings
• C) the importance of social learning
• D) the ability to make tools

Recognize the role of the endocrine system in influencing behavior.

Distinguish between the different contributions to offspring by males and females across species.

Acknowledge the benefits and costs of territoriality in animals.

Understand the basic characteristics that define chordates and vertebrates.

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Definitions:

Sexual Object

An object or a person that is the focus of one's sexual desire or attraction.

Oedipus Complex

A Freudian concept in psychoanalytic theory indicating a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic theory introduced by Carl Jung, positing that a girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Nonidentical Twins

Twins that develop from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm, resulting in siblings that are genetically distinct, also known as fraternal twins.