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