Anthropology 1003 Midterm: Auburn University

Becoming Human: According to a technique called the "molecular clock," humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor about ________ years ago

5 to 7 million

Who are the Narcerima?

Americans

The famous group of hominins known as the Neanderthals is included in which of the following groups?

Archaic Homo sapiens

According to "Our Babies Ourselves", which of the following is NOT typical of child-rearing practices in the United States.

Bed-sharing with child

Which of the following traits is unique to hominins and NOT found in other primates?

Bipedalism

Which of the following would be considered a functionalist?

Bronislaw Malinowski

The Origin of the Species was written by:

Charles Darwin

Studying another culture from its own point of view without imposing our own cultural values is known as:

Cultural Relativism

Which of the following is NOT a concept key to the human culture as discussed in the lecture?

Culture is isolated

According to the "Survival of the Fittest" video , what trait of the Rock Pocket Mouse was best adapted to survival on the lava flow?

Dark fur

Which of the following is NOT studied by anthropologists?

Dinosaur bones

According to "Evolution as Fact and Theory", being an evolutionary scientist means you do not believe in a higher power.

False

Cultural anthropologists use just three methods

False

One of the methods that archaeologists can use to determine potentially useful areas to excavate involves the use of

GIS systems regional surveys surface surveys aerial surveys

According Becoming Human (and Daniel Lieberman), the most compelling hypothesis for why bipedalism developed in early hominins is

It conserved energy

Which skeletal feature is paleoanthropologists' best indicator of bipedalism in a fossil?

Location of the Foramen Magnum

According to the lecture, which school of anthropological thought stresses the interrelationship among the natural conditions in the environment and society?

Neoevolutionism

The rough edge stone chopping tools made by Homo habilis are called

Olduwan tools

The ability to touch the thumb with the tips of the other fingers on the same hand is called:

Opposability

Which of the following is NOT one of the four major sub-fields of anthropology?

Paleontology

Reconnaissance work in archaeology is also known as:

Phase I

Which of the following is NOT a part of a human's taxonomic classification?

Plattyrhine

Which of the following is NOT evidence of early hominin bipedalism in the fossil record (as discussed in the presentation)?

Strong clavicle

Archaeologists are making a mistake when they clean samples of potsherds for analysis.

True

Culture can be transmitted virtually through the Internet in addition to face-to-face interaction. True/False

True

Males and females in a given primate population may be co-dominant.

True

The physical characteristics of any organism that can be seen are known as the phenotype.

True

According to "Our Babies Ourselves", the goal of child-rearing in any society is to make the child:

a happy, wealthy, a culturally appropriate adult (pick one)

Chronometric dating techniques used by archaeologists help establish

a more specific age for a fossil or something organic, the exact time of death of a human or creature, when something lived in relation to other fossils ( pick one)

One important adaptation found in New World monkeys is the presence of

a prehensile tail

Archbishop James Ussher calculated the age of the earth at about:

about 6000 years old

An evolutionary perspective on variations in physical traits reflects

adaptive changes

Fossils of Homo erectus are found:

all over the Old World

The subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures is called

archaeology

A quantitative approach to studying an archaeological site in the American Southwest would be most interested in

building and testing hypotheses by collecting, classifying, and measuring the remains of past cultures

Cultural anthropologists do research by

building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time

A primary characteristic that allows paleoanthropologists to place a particular finding into the genus Homo is

cranial capacity

The subfield of anthropology that studies human diversity, beliefs, and practice is called

cultural anthropology

One of the useful results of a phylogeny is to show that

each lineage has a unique history, and thus no organism is "more evolved" all lineages share a common history, and thus no organisms are "more evolved" all lineages share a common history, and thus some organisms are "more evolved"

The refinement of Darwin's theory has shown that

evolution can only be measured or seen across generations within a population

Behavioral ecology uses a comparative approach to evaluate differences among primates.

false

The art found on the walls at Lascaux has been thoroughly deciphered as to its function and meaning.

false

The taxonomic ordering of Homo erectus has been completely resolved through careful fossil analysis.

false

The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is called

functionalism

The defining feature of historical particularism is

individual societies develop particular cultural traits and undergo a unique process of change

In some species of primates, females and their relatives and young are socially organized around

matrifocal units

Darwin's idea about the major process of evolution is called:

natural selection

The structuralist approach to culture theorizes what?

people make sense of the world through binary oppositions (e.g., raw/cooked)

A dominance hierarchy exists when members of the same group have

ranking relative to others that establishes access to resources

Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called

rapid appraisal, action research, participant observation

Among the Bonobo chimpanzees, social conflict is often resolved through sexual activity. This is a form of

reconciliation

The Law of Superposition says that:

sedimentary layers are deposited in a time sequence with the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on the top.

Primates rely extensively on all the characteristics listed below except

sense of smell

According to the lecture. reading your textbook is an example of:

situational/symbolic/social

According to the lecture, in order for an explanation to be defined as scientific, it must be:

testable

An evolutionary perspective would be most likely to explain colonialism as

the natural abilities of more civilized people to control less civilized people

The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to

the people or species they study

One of the important ways that genetic material is moved between different populations, such as through gene flow, is

through the choice of a sexual partner

A word that best describes participant observation is

unstructured

The comparative method

uses data from many different societies