final week 9 and 10

Who taught Washoe (an ape) American Sign Language?

Allen and Beatrix Gardener

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned

American sign language

the rule that says within a group of endotherms, individuals living near the equator tend to have darker pigment

Glogers rule

A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called

a creole

According to anthropologist Sherry Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of

a summarizing symbol

ways humans vary biologically

blood type immune system ability to resist diseases

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

Which of the following is a contributing factor to the development of creoles, pidgins, and other hybrid forms of language?

colonialism globalization commerce migration

ethnicity differs from race in that

ethnicity is a group that believes they share a common culture and ancestory

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

false

forensic scientists can identify the race of an individuals skill with 100% accuracy

false

Antropology understanding of skin pigmentation emphasizes that

it is an adaptive response to ultraviolet light

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

parole

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue": According to the studies of Lazarus Geiger, what color term (after black and white) appears first and most often in ancient literature?

red

censuses interest anthropologist because they

reveal the governments role in classifying and categorizing, change over time and indicate shifts in social categories

who developed groups for categorizing humans into distinct races

scientists

According to "RACE: Are We So Different", many of our current concepts of race originated during

the European Age of Exploration

social processes that make race part of the natural order of things

the way race is naturalized

concordant traits are

traits what always occur together

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

white