Question 1 (5 points) (04.04 LC)

Map titled Louisiana Purchase, 1803, with regions showing Louisiana Purchase (U. S.), a large section stretching toward the Pacific Ocean from the Mississippi River, United States, including the original 13 colonies plus Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Territory controlled by United States, including the Mississippi Territory in the South and the Indiana Territory in the Upper Midwest, Territory controlled by Britain, including the Pacific Northwest and much of what is now Canada, and Territory controlled by Spain, including the Southwest, Mexico, and Florida.

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According to the map, which country controlled land bordering the northernmost part of the Louisiana Purchase? (5 points)

a
France

b
Canada

c
Spain

d
Great Britain

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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