ANT 2000 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 (ALREADY PASSED)
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ANT 2000 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 (ALREADY PASSED)
What kind of knowledge is needed to make context specific decisions while hunting? - Answer- ecology, seasonality, current weather, expected animal behavior, fresh animal signs
How much spacial area is cov...
ANT 2000 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
2024/2025 (ALREADY PASSED)
What kind of knowledge is needed to make context specific decisions while hunting? -
Answer- ecology, seasonality, current weather, expected animal behavior, fresh animal
signs
How much spacial area is covered by human hunters? - Answer- 200-1000 square km
in a year
35+ Ache men hunted over 12000 square km
How much spacial area is covered by male chimps? - Answer- 10 square km in a
lifetime
Where are our modern brains' human specific-abilities from? - Answer- they're the
product of biological evolution; cultural environment can nurture or ignore the potential
for gathering/applying knowledge
Human behavior is _____________, therefor: ________ - Answer- complex;
generalizations may not be easy to make
Margaret Mead - Answer- studied female sexuality in Samoa, her studies were later
disproved by Derek Freeman
four subfields of anthropology - Answer- cultural, linguistic, archaeology, biological
(physical)
culture - Answer- concept invented by anthropologists; central insight about underlying
similarities of all humans
culture is behavior acquired by learning, shared by a group, and transmitted from one
generation to another
mental infrastructure - Answer- system of shared meaning that guides perception and
action; humans take the observable world and create meaning
anthropos - Answer- human
, logos - Answer- word (study of)
anthropology - Answer- study of humans
what makes anthropology distinctive from other academic disciplines that study
humans? (4 things) - Answer- holistic
comparative
offers temporal depth and geographic breadth
concepts about culture and evolution
anthropology is a: (3 things) - Answer- science
social science
humanity
science - Answer- a procedure arriving at conclusions and an established accumulation
derived from the procedure
Keppler - Answer- (1571-1630) laws of planetary motion
Galileo - Answer- (1564-1642) astronomy using the telescope
Newton - Answer- (1643-1727) laws of motion and gravity
Intellectual Curiosity in the Scientific Revolution - Answer- (1500-1700) dramatic change
in the understanding of the natural world; occurred in europe
new concepts from the sci. rev. - Answer- modern astronomy, physics, anatomy,
physiology
new instruments from the sci. rev. - Answer- telescope, microscope, barometer, air
pump
new forms of communication from the sci. rev. - Answer- scientific (intellectual) capital,
scientific society, journals
scientific knowledge is: (4 things) - Answer- generative (builds upon itself)
coordinated (mosty, unity of science)
epistemic (new discoveries from previous ones)
attempts to describe a single reality (consistent, unlike religion)
"the origins of science" - Answer- tracking
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