Chapter 3: Pursuit of Food Quiz

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  1. The equal exchange of resources is called
  2. What is the oldest form of human subsistence?
  3. When someone other than the mother provides help in caring for infants it is called
  4. Status that comes from a person’s accomplishment is called
  5. The Cofán people
  6. _______________ occurs when the cost of defending a resource is greater than the value of the resource itself
  7. Foragers tend not to live beyond the age of 40
  8. People that have been displaced from their traditional homeland as a result of conservation efforts are called
  9. Sarah Hrdy argues that human alloparenting makes sense in light of
  10. Periodically moving farm plots in order for the soil to rejuvenate is called
  11. Early intensive agriculture allowed people to have more leisure time.
  12. Consequences of intensive agriculture include
  13. Diseases that are transferred from animal to human populations are called
  14. A system of ranking cultures based on perceived social progress is called
  15. An African “pygmy” that became part of a controversial zoo exhibit was
  16. Numbers of domesticated animals far exceed their wild counterparts
  17. _______________ rejected unilineal evolution and coined the term cultural relativism.
  18. The new proposed epoch, the age of humans, is called
  19. Humans have altered the world’s systems in terms of
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