Anth 1003

Who are the Narcerima?

Americans

The idea of biological evolution was first proposed by

Lamarck in the late 1700s

The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is

Renato Rosaldo

According to "Our Babies Ourselves", which of the following is NOT one of the "3 R's" of child rearing in Dutch society?

Respect

The primary result of natural selection is:

To maintain a species' adaptation to its niche

Social behavior patterns observed in one species that look like behavior patterns in another, but which do not arise from a shared ancestry, are known as

analogous behaviors

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 would be considered a functionalist?

Bronislaw Malinowski

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

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

False

Historical archaeologists only excavate sites where written historical documentation exists that provide an accurate description of the way the people actually lived.

False

In order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.

False

In science, a theory is an educated guess and is not well-accepted among the scientific community.

False

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

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

Linnaeus

Becoming Human: The _______________ is a deep furrow in a primate's brain. It divides parts of the brain related to vision from the rest of the neocortex, which is where more complex thought happens.

Lunate Sulcas

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

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

Plattyrhine

In Becoming Human, Zeray Alemseged named the Australopithecus afarensis child he found in Ethiopia

Selam

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

Symbolic Learning

A distinguishing feature of most australopithecines is their high degree of sexual dimorphism.

True

According to "Our Babies Ourselves", in the United States, individualism is valued highly, so generally parents do not hold their babies as much as other cultures.

True

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

True

Clyde Kluckhohn argued that both biological and cultural aspects of humanity must be seen as a continuum of small changes.

True

Gene flow is the movement of genetic material across different populations.

True

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

a prehensile tail

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

When children in the United States reach a certain age, they often move out of their parents' home and into their own living space, something anthropologists refer to as

dispersal

During fieldwork, cultural anthropologists

earn the local language record people's economic transactions study how environmental changes affect agriculture (all of the above)

The process of learning culture from a very young age is called

enculturation

Assuming your culture's way of doing things is the best described as

ethnocentrism

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

everyday interactions

The refinement of Darwin's theory has shown that

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

All the characteristics listed below are common behavior patterns found in all primates except

father-son bond

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

feature

Uniformitarianism is the idea that change occurs:

gradually and through the result of processes that are still observable today.

Which of the following is not one of the key benefits of full-time bipedalism?

increases speed against predators

Why was the discovery of penicillin in 1928 useful in our understanding of evolution?

it demonstrated that bacteria could quickly develop the ability to resist antibiotics

Among cultural anthropologists, fieldwork involves

learning the local language becoming involved in people's lives spending a significant amount of time in the field (all of the above)

For much of its early history, physical anthropology was associated with what methodology?

measurement and classification of skulls according to racial characteristics

Ethnocentrism

presents a major problem for anthropologists means you think your culture is superior to others is a common feature of culture (all of the above)

Cultural anthropologists face an ethical responsibility in their work and so must disclose to informants

reasons for doing the research

Discovery of an archaic human in the Denisova cave, which consisted of a finger bone and two teeth, has allowed paleoanthropologists to

reconstruct their genome

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.

In anthropology, holism refers to:

seeking to understand how all aspects of our species are related

Primates rely extensively on all the characteristics listed below except

sense of smell

The ability to document changes in pottery styles in non-living societies happens through

seriation

What kind of data do anthropologists gather from doing interviews?

terms for biological species details about court cases life histories opinions on upcoming elections (all of the above)

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

testable

An evolutionary perspective would be most likely to explain colonialism as

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