Part 1 - Chapter 1 (Inquisitive)
Which of the following are subjects of scientific laws?
Subject(s) of Scientific Laws: -gravity - motion - thermodynamics Not Subject(s) of Scientific Laws: - evolution
Things Biological Anthropologists Do Not Study
how learning how to dress is transmitted from generation to generation
Place the following hypotheses about bipedalism in chronological order of when they were proposed in history.
- Bipedalism is linked to a shift from life in the trees to life on the ground. - The first hominins arose in the open grasslands of Africa from an extinct ape that was arboreal. - Early hominins became bipedal while living in woodlands and spent a lot of time in trees, holding on to branches, moving from limb to limb.
How do Biological anthropologists know what they know? Place the following steps in order.
- Hypothesis is formed. - Hypothesis is tested. - Observations are explained. - Results of future investigations are predicted. - Theory is accepted.
Examples of Anthropological Pursuits
- early scholars evaluating the relationships between humans living in Europe and those encountered in distant places - modern-day scientists digging up skeletal remains dating from the 1500s and 1600s at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale - modern-day scientists collecting plant and animal remains from places where people lived in the past - fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European explorers documenting how people from other continents looked, talked, dressed, and behaved - modern-day scientists studying how the people who currently live in the Andes Mountains respond to low oxygen and extreme cold
Things Biological Anthropologists Study
- the social behavior of nonhuman primates - bones and teeth - genetic history - the origins of language and speech
Which of the following statements describes why the study of primate behavior & morphology is a part of biological anthropology?
Describes Why: - Primates are our nearest biological relatives Does Not Describes Why: - Biologists do not want to study primates. - Primates compete with humans for food and other resources. - Biological anthropology is a subdiscipline of biology, and primates are animals.
Anthropology is the study of past peoples and cultures.
False
Darwin's theory regarding the origin of bipedalism was ultimately accepted and remains central to our thinking about human evolution today.
False
Determine whether the following examples are primarily biological science or social science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE: - A biological anthropologist conducts interviews about how individuals in a family divide up food for each meal. - A biological anthropologist asks her study subjects to report how they breast feed their babies. - A biological anthropologist considers how a disease spreads based on how often family members interact. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE: - A biological anthropologist collects samples to obtain genetic information from the feces of a gorilla. - A biological anthropologist measures the bones of an early hominin. - A biological anthropologist compares the teeth of a skeleton to police dental records to identify the remains of the deceased.
Drag and drop the answer choices to finish the diagram of the scientific method.
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Drag each of the following research activities to the branch, or subdiscipline, of anthropology that it best represents.
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Forensic anthropology is the scientific examination of skeletons in hope of identifying who they were in life and what happened to them. To which of the following branches, or subdisciplines, of anthropology does forensic anthropology belong?
biological anthropology
A scientific ___________________ does not address larger questions about why a natural action takes place.
law
Not Examples of Anthropological Pursuits
scientists studying dinosaurs and how they lived
