ANT-1 Chapter 5

(Q017) You visit your uncle, a dentist, over winter break. He hands you this X-ray and instructs you to estimate the age of this child, given the eruption time of the permanent molars (6 years old for the first molar, 12 years old for the second, and 18 years old for the third). You reply that the child is in which age range?

6 to 12 years old

(Q002) In the 1700s, _____________ developed a scientific classification of race.

Blumenbach

(Q019) The growth and development of females is more sensitive to stressors in the environment than is the growth and development of males. True or False?

False

(Q022) A person in a hot environment having a red face is the result of vasoconstriction. True or False?

False

(Q023) In general, populations living between 0° and 20°N latitude have the darkest skin color. True or False?

False

(Q024) This graph of the growth curves of the brain, body, dentition, and reproductive system indicate that the dentition completes growth before any other system of the body. True or False?

False

These children are suffering from hypoxia. True or False?

False

(Q015) What is a major criticism that can be leveled against Johann Blumenbach's racial typology?

His five types did not take into account thousands of years of human evolution.

(Q006) One of your classmates asks you for your notes from biological anthropology class. She says she was absent because her mother broke her hip and needed help around the house. This is not the first time the student has been absent for this reason. What would you ask her in an attempt to figure out if her mother is predisposed to osteoporosis?

Is your mother a heavy smoker?

(Q012) There is an old adage that "a fat baby is a healthy baby." What could be a valid critique of this statement?

Overnutrition at any age is linked to an increase in diabetes, cholesterol, and blood pressure.

(Q010) Which of the following would be true according to Bergmann's and Allen's rules?

The Yupik of Alaska have short, squat bodies to retain heat.

(Q020) Human adaptation occurs at four levels—genetic, developmental, acclimatization, and cultural. True or False?

True

(Q021) For humans, hair loss and sweating are both thermoregulatory adaptations to heat. True or False?

True

(Q011) The disease rickets, which affects bone mineralization, results from a deficiency in which vitamin?

Vitamin D

(Q009) Your older sister recently had a baby and is confused about when she should wean her daughter. Based on what you learned in biological anthropology class about the timing and characteristics of life history stages in humans, what do you tell her?

Weaning is often finished by two to three years of age.

(Q004) When you were an 18-year-old in high school, your parents insisted that you were still an adolescent and therefore incapable of living an adult life. Which of the following, however, is an example of how you were already like an adult?

Your brain was already full size.

(Q013) One of your classmates moved to the United States from Somalia as a kid in the late 1990s. After seeing a picture of his family, you notice that he and his sister must have been undernourished for several years. What would be a valid reason for arriving at this conclusion?

Your classmate and his sister are both much shorter than their parents.

(Q014) What is a gradual change in phenotype over a geographical area is called?

a cline

(Q016) This figure shows the cross section of upper arm bones. To whom might they belong?

a professional quarterback

(Q018) People who live in the areas of the world highlighted in red have adapted to these particular geographical conditions and are likely to have which physical attribute?

a short adult stature

(Q007) The eruption of the first permanent molar and the completion of brain growth happen during ____________ development.

childhood

(Q001) During which part of history did the concept of race begin?

during the Renaissance

(Q005) Where do medullary cavities of bone exist?

in the diaphyses

(Q008) What is the period of time from about 20 years old to the end of the reproductive years called?

prime

(Q003) Frank Livingstone, a noted biological anthropologist, is famous for having said about human diversity in appearance, "There are no _________; there are only ___________."

races; clines