20. Which of the following statements from a report on a cross-cultural study of gift-giving would, if true, most strongly support the author s assertions concerning human gift-giving?
In every culture studied, it was found that some forms of gift-giving are acts of aggression that place the receiver under obligation to the giver.
Most governmental taxation systems differentiate between gifts of property given to children during a parent s lifetime, and a child s inheritance of the same property from a parent dying without a will.
Some gift-giving customs have analogous forms in nearly every culture, as in the almost universal custom of welcoming strangers with gifts of food.
In North America, generally speaking, money is an acceptable holiday gift to one s letter carrier or garbage collector, but is often considered an insult if given to one s employer, friends, or relatives.
Some gifts, being conciliatory in nature, indicate by their costliness the degree of hostility they must appease in the recipient.
Few areas of neurobehavioral research seemed more promising in the early sixties than that investigating the relationship between protein synthesis and learning. The conceptual framework for this research was derived directly from molecular biology, which had shown that genetic information is stored in nucleic acids and expressed in proteins. Why not acquired information as well?
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