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TEST BANK FOR OUR ORIGINS: DISCOVERING PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 4TH EDITION, CLARK SPENCER LARSEN, ISBN-10: X, ISBN-13: 4008 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 – THE PRESENT: FOUNDATION FOR THE PAST Chapter 1 – What Is Physical Anthropology? Chapter 2 – Evolution: Constructing a Fundamental Scien...

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4TH EDITION, CLARK SPENCER LARSEN, ISBN-10: 039361400X, ISBN-13:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS


PART 1 – THE PRESENT: FOUNDATION FOR THE PAST

Chapter 1 – What Is Physical Anthropology?

Chapter 2 – Evolution: Constructing a Fundamental Scientific Theory

Chapter 3 – Genetics: Reproducing Life and Producing Variation

Chapter 4 – Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics

Chapter 5 – Biology in the Present: Living People

Chapter 6 – Biology in the Present: The Other Living Primates

Chapter 7 – Primate Sociality, Social Behavior, and Culture



PART 2 – THE PAST: EVIDENCE FOR THE PRESENT

Chapter 8 – Fossils and Their Place and Time and Nature

Chapter 9 – Primate Origins and Evolution: The First 50 Million Years

Chapter 10 – Early Hominin Origins and Evolution: The Roots of Humanity

Chapter 11 – The Origins and Evolution of Early Homo

Chapter 12 – The Origins, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People

Chapter 13 – Our Last 10,000 Years: Agriculture, Population, and the Bioarchaeology of a
Fundamental Transition

,CHAPTER 1: What Is Physical Anthropology?

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Before AD 1000 what did the people of St. Catherines Island eat?
a. They ate wild animals, fish, and wild
plants.
b. They ate bison and salmon.
c. They were vegetarians and ate wild
plants exclusively.
d. They ate mostly fruit.

ANS: A DIF: Easy
OBJ: 1B. Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthro-
pological inquiry.
TOP: 1.Intro MSC: Remembering

2. After AD 1000, the people of St. Catherines Island acquired corn agriculture,
and farming became the mainstay of their diet. What physical changes did
this cause?
a. They became taller and better nour-
ished, and signs of disease nearly
disappeared.
b. While people became generally
larger in size and healthier, the corn
diet caused more dental disease.
c. Their bodies became more fit be-
cause they had less work to do in
acquiring food and could exercise in
other ways.
d. They became shorter and had
smaller skulls and limb bones, more
dental disease, and more infections.

ANS: D DIF: Moderate
OBJ: 1B. Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthro-
pological inquiry.
TOP: 1.Intro MSC: Understanding

3. What can be learned from studying a population through time?
a. We can learn that lifestyles do not
change over time.
b. We can learn that diets, and there-
fore human biology, change through
time.

, c. We can learn that consuming the
wrong foods over time does little to
population health.
d. We can learn that human physiology
does not change through time.

ANS: B DIF: Moderate
OBJ: 1B. Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthro-
pological inquiry.
TOP: 1.2 What Is Physical Anthropology? MSC: Understand-
ing

4. Which aspects of humans do physical anthropologists focus on?
a. the role of culture in shaping human
behavior
b. human physiology as observed in
laboratory studies
c. human biology and behavior in the
past and present
d. the processes behind human behav-
iors as revealed by artifacts

ANS: C DIF: Moderate
OBJ: 1A. Explain the differences and similarities among the four branches of
anthropology and understand what it means to say physical anthropologists
practice an interdisciplinary science.
TOP: 1.2 What Is Physical Anthropology? MSC: Understand-
ing

5. Physical anthropologists view how humans come to be the way they are as
the result of:
a. their biological makeup.
b. both evolutionary history and their
own individual life histories.
c. their genes; their environment has
very little effect.
d. their environment; their genes have
very little effect.

ANS: B DIF: Moderate
OBJ: 1B. Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthro-
pological inquiry.
TOP: 1.2 What Is Physical Anthropology? MSC: Understand-
ing

6. Which of the following is a good description of what physical anthropologists

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