Anthropology 101 Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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Anthropology 101 Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
Ethnography is: - Answer-the firsthand, personal study of local settings.
How are cultural rights different from human rights? - Answer-Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals.
What are the four main subdisciplines of...
Anthropology 101 Exam Questions and Answers All Correct Ethnography is: - Answer -the firsthand, personal study of local settings. How are cultural rights different from human rights? - Answer -Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals. What are the four main subdisciplines of anthropology? - Answer -Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology Current evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of hominins and the African apes existed - Answer -6 to 8 m.y.a. Ethnology is: - Answer -the comparative, generalizing aspect of cultural anthropology. Evolution can be defined most simply as - Answer -Descent with modification. How does survey research differ from ethnography? - Answer -Survey research generally focuses on a subset of a larger population. In evolutionary terms, what does fitness refer to? - Answer -An organism's ability to survive and reproduce Of the following nonhuman primates, which are most comparable to humans? - Answer - Terrestrial primates The American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics is - Answer -designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and to society in general. The emergence of agriculture in at least seven different regions of the world is an example of - Answer -Independent invention. The pressurized cabin of an airplane flying at high altitude provides an example of a(n) - Answer -cultural adaptation The process by which children learn culture is known as - Answer -enculturation. The tendency of people living in the Peruvian Andes to develop a voluminous chest and lungs for life at very high altitudes provides an example of a(n) - Answer -genetic adaptation What are the two major components of fieldwork in archaeological anthropology? - Answer -Systematic survey and excavation What distinction does Kottak draw between culture and society? - Answer -People share society (organized life in groups) with other animals, but culture is distinctly human. What do anthropological archaeologists study? - Answer -Material remains What does natural selection act on? - Answer -The phenotypes of organisms What does "evolution" actually refer to (i.e., how do we measure it)? - Answer -Changes in gene frequency (proportions of each genotype in population over time) What is cultural relativism? - Answer -The argument that behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture What is paleoanthropology? - Answer -The study of hominid evolution and human life as revealed by the fossil record What is the term for an expert on a particular aspect of local life? - Answer -Key cultural consultant What is the term for cultural change that results when two or more cultures have continuous firsthand contact? - Answer -Acculturation What is the term for processes that are causing nations and people to be increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent? - Answer -Globalization What is the term for the process in which certain traits of one sex are selected because of advantages they confer in winning mates? - Answer -Sexual selection What is the term for the processes by which organisms cope with environmental forces and stresses? - Answer -Adaptation What role do independent assortment and recombination play in evolution? - Answer - They create genetic variability in a breeding population. What term refers to an organism's evident traits, or physical appearance? - Answer - Phenotype
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