ch 13

Question 1

race

Answer 1

in general biology, a category often considered synonymous with “subspecies” into which individuals can be placed based on distinctive physiological, morphological, and/or ecological features; it is now generally held that the complexity of human bio behavioral variation cannot be usefully understood in terms of race

Question 2

cline

Answer 2

a continuous gradient observed in geographical space over which the frequency of expression of a character changes across contiguous populations; literally a depiction of the frequency with which a character appears in one population compared to its occurrence in a neighboring group literally a depiction of the frequency with which a character appears in one population compared to its occurrence in a neighboring group

Question 3

Cultural intelligence

Answer 3

the capacity of humans to acquire early in life complex skills for negotiating social situations

Question 4

polymorphism

Answer 4

refers to the existence of alternate forms of a trait