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B) good looks
C) virginity
D) youth
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A) foraging is more time-consuming than agriculture.
B) humans have practiced foraging for most of our evolutionary history.
C) sexual division of labor is clearly evident in the fossil record.
D) foraging requires greater skill compared with agriculture.
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A) is long gone.
B) has not yet arrived.
C) is here now.
D) never existed.
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A) have longer reproductive life spans.
B) have decreased fertility.
C) have lower offspring survivorship.
D) increase their chances of having pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions.
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A) polyandry.
B) competition over the most eligible women.
C) marriage decisions made by brides and grooms.
D) periods of food shortage.
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A) the monetary worth of a bride
B) the reproductive value of a bride
C) the wealth of a bride immediately after marriage
D) a payment to the bride's family at the time of marriage
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A) Taiwanese minor marriages
B) first-party attitudes toward incest
C) people who move to a kibbutz in their teens
D) domestic situations where the wife moves to the husband's group after marriage
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A) culture stops us from doing what we really desire.
B) childhood propinquity stifles desire.
C) natural selection cannot stop the power of culture.
D) it is prohibited in most religions.
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A) polygynous pastoralists who require bridewealth payments upon marriage.
B) polyandrous pastoralists who require groomwealth payments upon marriage.
C) monogamous pastoralists who require both bridewealth and groomwealth payments upon marriage.
D) monogamous pastoralists who require only a bridewealth payment upon marriage.
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A) hormonal
B) behavioral
C) morphological
D) physiological
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A) Brains are made up of many special-purpose subcomponents adapted to solve specific real-life problems.
B) Brains are general-purpose machines adapted to solve many different problems.
C) Brains evolved through drift-like processes.
D) Brains of humans are capable of solving problems faced by all species of mammal.
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A) They exist in 50% of societies for brothers and sisters.
B) They do not exist for distant kin.
C) They conform to genetic categories.
D) They do not always conform to genetic categories.
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A) examples of inbreeding avoidance mechanisms.
B) so important that they are genetically determined.
C) found in only a few cultures.
D) cultural constructs that rarely address the genetic requirement to avoid inbreeding.
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A) Genes are like blueprints that specify phenotypes.
B) The expression of any genotype always depends on the environment.
C) There is a clear distinction between the effects of genes and the effects of the environment.
D) People vary only because their genes carry different specifications.
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A) are older than they are.
B) have high reproductive value.
C) have had many sexual partners.
D) are not symmetrical.
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A) There are no gender differences related to preferred age of mates and preferred number of partners.
B) Men tend to marry younger women, but this difference decreases as men age; in comparison, there is a greater age difference between women and their husbands.
C) Regarding new relationships, it seems that men tend to underestimate women's sexual interest, while women tend to overestimate men's interest in commitment.
D) Regarding new relationships, it seems that men tend to overestimate women's sexual interest, while women tend to underestimate men's interest in commitment.
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A) 1:1
B) 1:2
C) 1:4
D) 1:8
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A) not recognizing closely related individuals as members of the opposite sex.
B) the transfer of one sex at sexual maturity to distant groups.
C) coercion by other group members who alarm call if a mating attempt happens.
D) preventing the female from ovulating if a closely related male is in the vicinity.
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