Quizzes

The presence of a raised area in the middle of the cranium found in H. erectus is known as a

saggital keel

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

Reading your textbook is an example of:

symbolic learning

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

testable

Evolution as Fact and Theory: The article states scientific creationism is not scientific because it is not ___________.

testable

The Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed that all life was arranged in

the great chain of being

Ethnoprimatology is an emerging field that studies

the interface between human and ape communities

An evolutionary perspective would be most likely to explain colonialism as

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

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue": What conclusion did Prime Minister William Gladstone make about how the Greeks saw color?

they were colorblind

According to the textbook, culture is uniquely human.

true

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

true

comparative method

uses data from many different societies

In "Radio Lab: Why Isn't the Sky Blue", how did Guy Deutsher's daughter Alma initially describe the sky?

white

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

5-7 million

Who taught Washoe (an ape) American Sign Language?

Allen and Beatrix Gardener

The progression of ancestral forms leading to modern-day humans, the earliest being first, is which of the following sequences?

Australopithecines - Homo habilis - Homo erectus - Homo sapiens

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 one of the four major sub-fields of anthropology?

Paleontology

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

Plattyrhine

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

a culturally appropriate adult

A key principle of the holistic perspective developed by Franz Boas is

a goal of synthesizing the entire context of human experience

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

a prehensile tail

Which project would likely require the assistance of a geomorphologist?

a study of landscape change

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

action research

What kind of data do anthropologists gather from doing interviews?

all of the above

Who are the Narcerima?

americans

In which of the following locations would you likely find an anthropologist doing fieldwork?

any of the above

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

The evolution of the tail among New World monkeys reflects an adaptation to their environment and would be of interest to a

behavioral ecologist

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

bipedalism

A taxonomic structure is one that

both names and classifies all organisms according to a system

The communication systems of nonhuman species consist of a finite (limited) number of signals for finite specific meanings. Such systems are said to be:

closed

Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called

cognate words

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

If you wanted to understand the norms of a society, you would most likely focus on

everyday interactions

All humans are born with some culture.

false

Anthropologists have always approached a problem by specializing in one of the four subfields.

false

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

false

Countries find it relatively easy to decide what language its citizens will speak.

false

Cultural anthropology is one of the most quantitative of the social sciences.

false

In order to truly practice cultural relativism, one could never make a judgement on what is right and wrong.

false

It is easy to identify direct causal links between genes and behavior.

false

Languages always change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.

false

Non-random mating among the Hutterite sect in Canada is a good example of how genetic drift works.

false

People rarely hold conflicting values.

false

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

false

The term hominin refers to humans and great apes.

false

A form of non-portable material culture that a human has made and modified is called a/an____________.

feature

Shaking hands when you meet someone is an example of a

folkway

By cross-breeding pea plants, he was able to illustrate the basic laws of inheritance:

gregor mendel

Alfred Russell Wallace is known for:

hitting upon the idea of natural selection at about the same time as Darwin

Which hominin was the first stone tool maker (according to the lecture)?

homo habilis

What process involves shifting from an agricultural economy to a factory-based one?

industrialization

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

it conserved energy

The success of simple life forms such as bacteria challenges one of the early ideas about evolution because

it demonstrates the oversimplification that comes from thinking humans are more highly evolved

The U.S. government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to

language death

The name most closely associated with the system traditionally used to classify living things is:

linnaeus

If you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin Lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"

marginalizes women's voices in work contexts

How words fit together to make meaningful units is called

morphology

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

natural selection

What is the tool tradition associated with Homo habilis?

oldowan

If you wanted to understand very early, non-living human beings, you would likely engage in

paleoanthropology

If you discovered an ancient hominin with megadontia and a dental grinding structure similar to Paranthropus you might suggest that the diet of this hominin was

predominantly plant based

Sickle-cell anemia, a blood cell mutation, takes a toll on those afflicted, but is an example of a mutation that may also be useful because it

provides resistance to malaria in the tropics

Techniques that classify features of a phenomenon and count, measure, and construct statistical models are collecting and analyzing

quantitive data

The argument that modern H. sapiens appeared as a new species in Africa about 200,000 years ago is called the

recent african origin model

The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is

renato rosaldo