Tut 2
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- Q1
What best describes the focus of archaeology?
a. The material culture people leave behind including tools, food, and shelters
d. Human origins and evolution
b. Finding valuable artifacts
c. Studying prehistoric societies
60s - Q2
Which subdiscipline of anthropology would research why darker skin pigmentation is more prevalent in high ultraviolet (UV) contexts, while lighter skin pigmentation is prevalent in low UV areas?
d. cultural anthropology
a. archaeology
b. linguistic anthropology
c. biological anthropology
60s - Q3
All of the following are questions that a biological anthropologist might address EXCEPT
d. How have languages diversified over time?
c. How are we related to primates?
b. How genetically similar are various human populations?
a. What influenced human evolution?
60s - Q4
Only academics trained in science should utilize the scientific method.
false
true
60s - Q5
Which perspective proposed that all people share a single common origin?
polygenism
savagery
monogenism
transmutation hypothesis
60s - Q6
Who coined the terms “descent with modification” and “natural selection”?
Edward Tyler
Charles Darwin
Carl Linneaus
Charles Lyell
60s - Q7
Most genetic mutations that occur to an organism’s DNA are:
nonadaptive.
adaptive.
predictable and patterned.
helpful to the organism’s survival.
60s - Q8
Chapter two author Jonathan Marks argues one reason we cannot always know why a particular feature of an organism evolved is because
humans are not intelligent enough to fully grasp the complexity of evolution.
most humans hold religious or spiritual beliefs that inhibit our understanding of evolution.
there are some things people are uncomfortable studying and scientists avoid these subjects.
not everything evolves for a specific purpose.
60s - Q9
Offspring that can reproduce successfully to have offspring of their own are called ____offspring.
viable
fertile
compatible
mutated
60s - Q10
Sexual selection is an aspect of natural selection in which:
sexually appealing traits are selected for without risk to an organism’s survival.
the selective pressure affects reproductive success (the ability to breed and raise offspring) rather than survival.
sexual reproduction is not always possible, so organisms develop the ability to alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction.
environmental pressures favor one phenotype over the other causing frequencies of the advantageous alleles to increase thereby increasing reproductive success.
60s