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Biological Anthropology Chapters 1-5Exam Questions with Correct Answers
Ch1) Archaeology - Answer-Examines our past ways of life through the interpretation of
material culture, organic remains, written records, and oral traditions.
Ch1) Linguistic - Answer-Examines the structure and diversity of language and related
human communication systems.
Ch1) Cultural - Answer-Explores the diversity of existing human ways of life, how they
work, how they change, and how they interrelate in the modern world.
Ch1) Biological - Answer-Deals with the evolution of the human body, mind and
behavior as inferred through study of fossils and comparisons with behavior and
anatomy of other primate species.
Ch1) culture - Answer-Learned Behavior that is transmitted from person to person.
Ch1) artifacts - Answer-Material objects from past cultures.
Ch1) language - Answer-A set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things (people,
places, concepts, etc.) other than themselves.
Ch1) sociolinguistics - Answer-The science of investigating language's social contexts.
Ch1) biocultural approach - Answer-The scientific study of the interrelationships
between what humans have inherited genetically and culture.
Ch1) hominin - Answer-Humans and humanlike ancestors.
Ch1) genome - Answer-The complete set of genetic information- chromosomal and
mitochondrial DNA- for an organism or species that represents all of the inheritable
traits.
Ch1) primates - Answer-A group of mammals in the order Primate that have complex
behavior, varied forms of locomotion, and a unique, suites of traits, including large
brains, forward-facing eyes, fingernails, and reduced snouts.
Ch1) bipedalism - Answer-Walking on two feet.
Ch1) nonhoning canine - Answer-An upper canine that, as part of a nonhoning chewing
mechanism, is not sharpened against the third premolar.
, Ch1) material culture - Answer-That part of culture that is expressed as objects that
humans use to manipulate environments.
Ch1) social learning - Answer-The capacity to learn from other humans, enabling the
accumulation of knowledge across many generations.
Ch1) data - Answer-Evidence gathered to help answer questions, solve problems, and
fill gaps in scientific knowledge.
Ch1) hypotheses - Answer-Testable statements that potentially explain specific
phenomena observed in the natural world.
Ch1) scientific method - Answer-An empirical research method in which data are
gathered from observations of phenomena, hypotheses are formulated and tested, and
conclusions are drawn that validate or modify the original hypothesis.
Ch1) Terrestrial - Answer-Life-forms, including humans, that live on land versus living in
water or in trees.
Ch1) morphology - Answer-Physical shape and appearance.
Ch1) scientific law - Answer-A statement of fact describing natural phenomena.
Ch2) fossils - Answer-Physical remains of part or all of once-living organisms, mostly
bones and teeth, that have become mineralized by the replacement of organic with
inorganic materials.
Ch2) species - Answer-A group of related organisms that can interbreed and produce
fertile, viable offspring.
Ch2) habitat - Answer-The specific area of the natural environment in which an
organism lives.
Ch2) adaptations - Answer-Changes in physical structure, function, or behavior that
allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in an environment.
Ch2) natural selection - Answer-The process by which some organisms, with features
that enable them to adapt to the environment, preferentially survive and reproduce,
thereby increasing the frequency of those features in the population.
Ch2) endemic - Answer-Refers to a characteristic or feature that is natural to a given
population or environment.
Ch2) adaptive radiation - Answer-The diversification of an ancestral group of organisms
into new forms that are adapted to specific environmental niches.
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