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Physical Anthropology is the study of the biological and evolutionary aspects of the human species, focusing on the origins, development, and diversity of humans and their closest relatives. The course explores the principles of evolution, genetics, human variation, primatology, and the fossil record, providing insights into how humans adapted to various environments and how our physical traits have changed over time. Emphasis is placed on understanding the relationship between biology and culture, as well as the methods used to interpret physical evidence from both living populations and ancient remains.
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The Essence of Anthropology 3rd Edition by William A. Haviland
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Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
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Q1) Open-ended conversations in ethnographic research are called
Answer: informal interviews
Q2) Archaeology is the study of:
A) human material remains and environmental data
B) human fossils
C) human skeletal remains
D) ancient written documents
Answer: A
Q3) What are the two main components of Cultural Anthropology?
Answer: The two main components are ethnography and ethnology.
Q4) Which of the following best describes ethnology?
A) cross-cultural comparative research
B) detailed description of a particular culture
C) study of customary patterns in human behavior
D) participant observation research
Answer: A
Q5) Most living organisms eventually become fossils.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution
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Q1) The allele for sickle-cell anemia is found primarily in areas where there are large populations of mosquitoes bearing:
A) falciparum malaria
B) parasitic dysentery
C) smallpox
D) yellow fever
Answer: A
Q2) A painful disease in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells change into abnormal shapes is called:
A) anemia
B) natural blood selection
C) Trisomy 21
D) sickle-cell anemia
Answer: D
Q3) All of the following are evolutionary forces except:
A) genetic drift
B) gene flow
C) genetic cloning
D) mutation
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Living Primates
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Q1) What is the basic primate limb pattern?
Answer: The basic pattern is an upper portion of a single long bone, a lower portion of 2 bones, and hands or feet with 5 radiating digits.
Q2) Which of the following is the most accurate statement? Humans are considered to be part of the Primate Order because:
A) we descend from apes
B) we are considered to be ancestors to the primates
C) primates are considered to be our first ancestors
D) we share a recent common ancestry
Answer: D
Q3) Among primates, the limb pattern structure allows for speed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Chimpanzee females reach sexual maturity around the age of 10.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Human Evolution
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Q1) Discoverers of Homo sapiens idaltu have used this fossil evidence to argue that Neandertal is part of the direct line of Homo sapiens sapiens.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________________ is the most controversial ancient member of the genus Homo.
Q3) Which hypothesis argues that Homo sapiens originated through simultaneous transition throughout the inhabited world?
A) recent African origins hypothesis
B) multiregional hypothesis
C) both the multiregional and the recent African origins hypotheses
D) neither hypothesis argues this
Q4) Which of the following statements about punctuated equilibria and Darwinian gradualism is best supported by the fossil record?
A) neither model clearly explains the changes we see in the fossil record
B) Darwinian gradualism is most supported in the fossil record
C) punctuated equilibria is most supported within the fossil record
D) both models of evolutionary change are in evidence in the record
Q5) "Lucy" is an example of one of the species of _______________.
Q6) _______________ change depends upon heritable traits.
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Chapter 5: The Neolithic Revolution: The Domestication of Plants
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Q1) In environments that were averse to the development of cultivation, societies tended to become:
A) pastoralist
B) agricultural
C) horticulturalist
D) urban
Q2) Which language group first originated in sub-Saharan Africa and then spread outward?
A) Swahili
B) Bantu
C) Arabic
D) Indo-European
Q3) Who were the Natufians?
A) a Neolithic culture in Southeast Asia
B) a Paleolithic culture in Europe
C) a Neolithic transition culture in Southwest Asia
D) a Mesolithic transition culture in Southwest Asia
Q4) Name four common sources of Neolithic clothing.
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Q5) As people became _______________, disturbed habitats became more extensive and resources in proximity to settlements were depleted.
Chapter 6: The Emergence of Cities and States
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Q1) Evidence of warfare in early civilizations is (common/uncommon)
Q2) Compare and contrast each of the central theories that attempt to explain state development. What are the weaknesses with each theory?
Q3) In the Inca Empire, information was moved by:
A) public records made up of a conventional writing system
B) imperial administrators whose job it was to deliver messages
C) a system of professional relay runners
D) announcers on horseback
Q4) What kind of data was collected from the study of non-monumental structures at Tikal?
A) state political interests
B) trade and exchange routes
C) site size and population
D) religious affiliation
Q5) Which of the following represents the earliest kind of record-keeping?
A) bark paper
B) cloth paper
C) tokens
D) clay tablets
Q6) _______________________ are material items found in burials.
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Chapter 7: Modern Human Diversity: Race and Racism
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Q1) Marks argues that athletic ability is based on all of the following except:
A) race
B) social factors
C) cultural factors
D) genetics
Q2) In the United States, as in most industrial and postindustrial countries since World War II, IQ scores have risen an average of:
A) 45 points
B) 15 points
C) 10 points
D) 25 points
Q3) Ota Benga was 15 when he was first brought to the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In what period did European scholars first begin a systematic study of human variation?
A) 19th/20th centuries
B) 16th/17th centuries
C) 15th century
D) 18th/19th centuries
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Chapter 8: The Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) Culture exclusively concerns observable data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The belief that one's own culture is superior to others is called _______________.
Q3) When George Esber, Jr. worked to design a new community for Apaches, he found that they had very explicit awareness of what they wanted.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As the effects of globalization increase from moment to moment, what do you think is the ultimate fate of cultural diversity? How might this affect humans in the future?
Q5) Pluralistic societies first emerged with the development of the _______________.
Q6) A group that shares ancestry, origin, language, customs, and traditional beliefs is also called:
A) an ethnic group
B) a society
C) a subculture
D) a culture
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) The language family which includes English is approximately how old?
A) 6,000 years
B) 3 million
C) 400 years
D) 50,000 years
Q2) Phonemes have no meanings by themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the languages in Europe belong to the Indo-European family.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinct male and female patterns of speech are called:
A) ethnolinguistics
B) gendered speech
C) dialectic speech
D) code switching
Q5) Ethnolinguistics is part of historical linguistics.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is paralanguage?
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Chapter 10: Social Identity, Personality, and Gender
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Q1) When a person's delusional system is so different that it in no way reflects his or her society's norms, the individual can be considered:
A) psychological
B) transgendered
C) psychotic
D) psychoanalytic
Q2) How and why might a culture focus more on dependence training versus independence training in the socialization process? Provide examples.
Q3) Anthropologists use the technical term _______________ for "two-spirits."
Q4) Among the modern day settled Ju/'hoansi, women are as self-reliant as men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In which of the following countries do more than half of all live births occur outside of marriage?
A) Argentina
B) United States
C) Australia
D) Norway
Q6) What is a "modal personality"?
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Chapter 11: Subsistence and Exchange
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Q1) What is the role of the environment in adaptation?
Q2) Which of the following is not an example of a food-producing society?
A) horticultural
B) foraging
C) pastoralist
D) agricultural
Q3) How does tool ownership vary among horticulturalists and agriculturalists?
Q4) Potatoes were first domesticated in the Andes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the flexible/integrated pattern of division of labor?
Q6) People adapted to high altitude tend to have bodies that are:
A) long-legged and barrel-chested
B) short-legged and slender
C) long-legged and slender
D) short-legged and barrel-chested
Q7) When there are similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions achieved by people whose ancestral cultures were already somewhat alike, it is called
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Q8) Discuss the process of cultural adaptation among the early Comanche Indians.
Chapter 12: Sex, Marriage, and Family
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Q1) In Peru, the Inca was required to marry his _______________.
Q2) In arranged marriages in India, the groom and bride tend to be from the same _______________.
Q3) The basic residential unit where economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing and shelter are organized is called the:
A) household
B) family
C) conjugal unit
D) marriage
Q4) What advantages does dowry confer on a woman?
Q5) All societies have rules to govern sexual behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the rationale for bridewealth in a patrilineal society?
A) the wife is expensive to maintain and the groom must be compensated
B) the wife's family will lose her labor and reproductive capacity
C) the wife's family negotiates a better marriage with a high bridewealth
D) the wife's children will drain resources from her husband's family over time
Q7) How is same-sex marriage culturally adaptive among the Nandi?
Q8) What are the biological consequences of incest and the incest taboo?
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Chapter 13: Kinship and Other Methods of Grouping
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Q1) What are the advantages of lineage exogamy?
Q2) The Hindu caste system is based on the sacred text known as:
A) Bagavad Ghita
B) Laws of Manu
C) Hindu Vedas
D) Manor Castes
Q3) "Kindred" is frequently associated with what mode of subsistence?
A) industrialism
B) horticulture
C) pastoralism
D) foraging
Q4) _______________ descent is tracing descent through the male line.
Q5) In what country do we find the Maori?
A) New Zealand
B) Australia
C) Trobriand Islands
D) Papua New Guinea
Q6) When an original lineage splits into two, it is called fusion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Politics, Power, and Violence
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Q1) A _______________ society is one which has within its borders people of more than one nation.
Q2) A prime technique for resolving disputes in a band is:
A) warfare
B) imprisonment
C) strong leadership
D) mobility
Q3) Compare and contrast ethnocide with genocide.
Q4) Why was Igbo women's autonomy destroyed?
Q5) In the past, Igbo women managed their own affairs, both politically and socially.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How do tribal leaders customarily enforce their authority?
A) through shaming and gossip
B) through fines and taxes
C) through military action
D) through banishment
Q7) How do anthropologists define "power"?
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Q8) What were the primary duties of the Igbo omu?
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Chapter 15: Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) In the United States today, there are approximately how many declared practitioners of Buddhism?
A) 10,000-20,000
B) 9-10 million
C) 800,000-1 million
D) 2-3 million
Q2) Religion and spirituality are best examined as part of a society's worldview.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why is there so much controversy over clitoridectomy?
A) it is a non-Western religious practice
B) it is extremely dangerous to women's health
C) it causes women to have too much fertility
D) it allows women to practice birth control
Q4) More than 40% of the world's adult population claims to be atheist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Revitalization movements lie at the root of all known religions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Changes and the Role of Anthropology
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Q1) The global leaders in military spending in descending order are the United States, Japan, Britain, and France.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The recent rise in global urbanization has been fueled mainly by:
A) rise of state societies
B) mining
C) mechanized farming
D) rural-to-urban migrations
Q3) What is structural violence? Give an example.
Q4) The Pashto are the most subordinate group in Afghanistan.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Between 1950 and 2000 the world population reached a high of:
A) 16 billion
B) 6 billion
C) 2 billion
D) 8 billion
Q6) The national language of Afghanistan is _______________.
Q7) Name four kinds of external migration.
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