Anth 002 Quiz Study Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Anth 002 Quiz Study Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers
Culture, as defined in Chapter 1, ____. - Correct Answer Can be defined as the strategy by which humans adapt to the natural environment
What does the term biocultural evolution refer to? - Correct Answer The interaction between b...
Anth 002 Quiz Study Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers
Culture, as defined in Chapter 1, ____. - Correct Answer Can be defined as the strategy by which
humans adapt to the natural environment
What does the term biocultural evolution refer to? - Correct Answer The interaction between biology
and culture in human evolution
Which sub discipline of anthropology is concerned with various aspects of human language? -
Correct Answer Linguistic anthropology
What is primatology the study of? - Correct Answer Nonhuman primates
Why has primatology become increasingly important since the late 1950s? - Correct Answer All of
these- Behavioral studies have implications for other scientific disciplines.
What is the study of the primate fossil record known as? - Correct Answer Primate paleontology
____ is the study of human evolution as evidenced by the fossil record. - Correct Answer
Paleoanthropology
What is a scientific theory? - Correct Answer A tested hypothesis that has yet to be falsified
What is a hypothesis? - Correct Answer It is a provisional statement regarding certain scientific facts
or observations.
What strategy did humans develop that helped them to adapt to the natural environment?
Evolution
Culture
Biological adaptation
,Walking on two legs-incorrect
Genetic change - Correct Answer Walking on two legs-incorrect
Which branch(es) of anthropology use(s) the anthropological perspective?
Archaeology
Cultural anthropology
Paleoanthropology
1 and 2 only
All of these - Correct Answer All of these
Ethnographies ____.
Are studies of only Western European Societies?
Are studies of nonhuman primates?
Emphasize, among other topics, subsistence strategies, religion, and dietary practices
Are studies done by archaeologists?
3 and 4 only - Correct Answer Emphasize, among other topics, subsistence strategies, religion, and
dietary practices
Today, cultural anthropologists are involved in numerous avenues of research including which of the
following?
,The study of subcultures
The resettlement of refugees
The relationship between cultural attributes and health and disease
All of these
A and C only - Correct Answer All of these
The study of human biology within the framework of human evolution can be said to be the domain
of which of the following?
____ is the sub discipline of osteology that is concerned with disease and trauma in earlier
populations.
Forensic anthropology
Primatology
Anthropometry
, Paleoanthropology
Paleopathology - Correct Answer Paleopathology
Forensic anthropologists ____.
Study disease and trauma in ancient populations-incorrect
Apply anthropological techniques to the law
Are primarily concerned with the recovery of material culture remains
Examine the relationships between medical treatment and culturally determined views of disease
Study nonhuman primates - Correct Answer Study disease and trauma in ancient populations-
incorrect
Question 1
pts
Several events had combined to alter Western Europeans' ideas about the earth by the 18th century.
What did these include?
the circumnavigation of the globe
the discovery of the New World
the notion of a sun-centered universe
all of these
1 and 2 only - Correct Answer all of these
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