ANT 2000 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND REVISED ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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ANT 2000 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND REVISED ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
The fossil skulls of transitional forms known as Archaic Homo sapiens show a mixture of - Answer- Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits
True or False? Homo erectus fossils have been found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. - Answer- True
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ANT 2000 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
AND REVISED ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT
The fossil skulls of transitional forms known as Archaic Homo sapiens show a mixture of
- Answer- Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits
True or False? Homo erectus fossils have been found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. -
Answer- True
Which of the following is not an accurate statement? - Answer- the switch from food
foraging to food production allowed people to work less in subsistence pursuits
Domestication: - Answer- increases productivity and increases instability
Which of the following is not a characteristic of band-level hunter-gatherer societies -
Answer- high population density
The earliest evidence for plant domestication comes from what region? - Answer-
Mesopotamia
True or False? Plant domestication occurred in North America by 10,000 years ago and
included important cereal grains such as wheat, barley, and oats. - Answer- False
3 things set anthropology apart: - Answer- Holistic approach
Comparative studies
Cultural relativism
Cultural relativism - Answer- one should suspend judgement of other people's practices
in order to understand those practices on their own terms.
Ethnocentrism - Answer- A way of continually viewing and judging other cultures in
relation to one's own
Dimensions of human variation studied by anthropologists - Answer- -biological
-social
-cultural
, Do all humans have culture? - Answer- Yes
Enculturation - Answer- -Process by which culture is learned begging at birth (if not in
utero)
In the beginning it wasn't weird for anthropologist to: - Answer- -Estimate biological
heath
-study linguistic patterns, and -study the intricacies of social and political systems
The four subfields of anthropology: - Answer- Archeology: uses remains to distinguish
cultural variation in the past
Cultural: patterns of behavior and thought within socities
Linguistics; Patterns and behavior of language
Physical: biological aspects of human variation and health
Which of the following is not an attribute of culture? - Answer- It is unifrom
Culture is: - Answer- -dynamic
-symbol-based
-shared
-integrated
-learned
Process that unifies people by providing common, shared experience through learning -
Answer- enculturation
Symbol-based learned behavior is one definition of? - Answer- culture
All cultures are: - Answer- dynamic
Which of the following best serves the anthropologist in his/her study of another culture?
- Answer- cultural relativism
In modern terms, Mendel's pea experiments showed that - Answer- offspring inherited
homologous pairs of chromosomes, one from each parent
Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics was rejected because - Answer- Lamarck's
theory of acquired characteristics was rejected because
Which of the following enabled mammals to succeed as dinosaurs suffered extinction
65 million years ago? - Answer- -homeothermy
-live birth
-complex brains
Who was responsible for providing the principles of heredity? - Answer- Gregor Mendel
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