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Biological Anthropology Exam 1 ReviewQuestions and Answers
According to Larson (2016) in chapter 1, what are the 6 hallmarks of evolution? -
Answer-Hunting, domestication of plants and animals, material culture and tools,
nonhoning chewing apparatus, speech, and bipedalism
Physical anthropologists seek to _______ - Answer-study humans from a biological and
cultural perspective
Larsen in chapter 1 discusses the two concepts that best explain physical Anthropology
as that ________ - Answer-every person is a product of evolutionary history and each
of us is the product of our own individual life histories
Archeaology is _________ - Answer-the study of behavior and material culture of past
human societies
In chapter 1, bipedalism in primates means _________ - Answer-walking on 2 feet
How is biocultural Anthropology different from cultural Anthropology? - Answer-it
examines the interaction between biology and culture in shaping human biology
According to Larsen (2016), bipedalism is considered one of the hallmarks of hominin
evolution because _______ - Answer-it was the first evolutionary development that
distinguished humans from other primates
Physical Anthropology as a discipline is NOT concerned with ________ - Answer-
fossilized non-primate remains
Forensic anthropologists __________ - Answer-focus their work on skeletal analysis of
individuals.
Physical anthropologists might examine - Answer-human brain biology
As you have read in Chapter 1, Clark larsen explains that just before the arrival of the
Spanish on Saint Catherine's Island, people there _______ - Answer-were hunter-
gatherers
What makes us human? - Answer-biology, culture, and behavior
Anthropologists view humans as both _______ - Answer-biological and cultural beings
The four branches (fields) of anthropology are __________ - Answer-1. physical
(biological) anthropology
, 2. archaeology
3. cultural anthropology
4. linguistics
Physical (biological) anthropology is the study of evolutions and variations in humans
T/F? - Answer-True
Production of stone or lithic tools hy humans is an example of subsistence strategies
T/F? - Answer-False
Archaeologists refer to the production of stone and lithic tools as material culture of
prehistoric societies T/F? - Answer-True
According to Clark Larsen (2016) in chapter 1, social learning facilitates accumulation of
knowledge over long periods of time T/F? - Answer-True
List 4 areas of specializations within the subdiscplines of physical (biological)
anthropology - Answer-Cultural Anthropology:
- economic anthropology
Biological Anthropology:
- forensics
Archaeology:
- historical preservation
Linguistics:
- writing among different cultures
List 3 possible activities an applied archaeologist could do - Answer-1. excavation
2. preservation
3. research
What was the prehistoric scientific view? - Answer-world is fixed and unchanging
Great Chain of Being (Alex pope) - Answer-hierarchical organization of life on earth
from simplist to most complex forms w/ humans at top of ladder
Grand design - Answer-in which anatomical structures existed to meet specific functions
or goals, intelligent design concepts
Theory - Answer-well supported general idea that explains a large set of factual patterns
and predicts other patterns
Science - Answer-method of inquiry that requires generation, testing, and acceptance or
rejection of hypotheses
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