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Anthropology 101 2024 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 Afr...

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 ap...

ANTH 101 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers Explain how fossils are formed and why they are not equally prevalent in all areas. - Answer-fossils are the remains of past life forms that have been partially or wholly transformed into rock and displaced through a long process of chemical replacement. minerals in bones and teeth are replaced with rock forming minerals like iron and silica. can be from any body part however 99% are made up of teeth and and bones. taphonomy (how fossils ...

Anthropology 101 Ethnography is: - correct answer the firsthand, personal study of local settings. How are cultural rights different from human rights? - correct answer Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals. What are the four main subdisciplines of anthropology? - correct answer Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology Current evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of hominins and the African apes existed - cor...

Anthropology 101 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective?" - Answer-To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human cultures and biology A "culture bond" theory is - Answer-a theory based on assumptions common to a particular culture rather than deriving from comparisons of many different cultures Cross-cultural research that allows anthropologists to explain why differences or similarities occur betwe...

Anthropology 101 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective?" - Answer-To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human cultures and biology A "culture bond" theory is - Answer-a theory based on assumptions common to a particular culture rather than deriving from comparisons of many different cultures Cross-cultural research that allows anthropologists to explain why differences or similarities occur betwee...

Anthropology 101 Inquisitive Chapter 9 Match each hypothesis about the evolution of unique primate traits to the scientist(s) who proposed it. - correct answer -Sir Grafton Elliot Smith and Frederic Wood Jones: arboreal hypothesis -Matt Cartmill: visual predation hypothesis -Robert Susan: angiosperm radiation hypothesis Match each taxonomic group of early haplorhine primates to its description. - correct answer -Propliopithecids: This is a somewhat diverse group of fossil primates. Alt...

Anthropology 101 2024 Test Questions with Answers What are the 6 skeletal evidences for Bipedalism? - Answer-1. The pelvis is bowl shaped. 2. The vertebral column is S-shaped (curved spine to set center of balance). 3. The big toe is not opposable, but in line with other toes (we also have a larger heel). 4. The femur is angled inward so that the knees are centered (for balance). 5. The foramen magnum is positioned at the base of the skull and parallel to floor. 6. Relative arm and l...

Anthropology 101 Exam 2ethnicity - correct answer identification with, and feeling part of, an ethnic group and exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation convergent evolution - correct answer independent operation of similar selective forces; the process by which analogies are produced homologies - correct answer traits that organisms have jointly inherited from a common ancestor analogies - correct answer similarities arising as a result of similar selective force...

Anthropology 101 Exam with Complete Solutions Cultural Relativism - Answer-The position that the values and standards of cultures differ and deserve respect. Anthropology is characterized by methodological rather than moral relativism: In order to understand another culture fully, anthropologists try to understand its member's beliefs and motivations. Methodological relativism does not preclude making moral judgments or taking action Ethnocentrism - Answer-The tendency to view one's own c...