Anthropology 101 - Human Biological Evolution » Winter 2020 » Chapter 5 Quiz

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Question #1
Infancy:
A.   is also called the “neonatal” period.
B.   runs from the second month after birth to the end of lactation, usually by the end of the third year.
C.   includes three months before birth and three months after birth.
D.   runs from three to seven years, generally postweaning.
Question #2
The obesity pandemic is primarily due to:
A.   the production of high-calorie, low-fat foods even though people still have a high exercise level.
B.   the increased ability to produce and consume inexpensive, high-fat foods.
C.   a lack of physical exercise.
D.   a combination of lower calories and more exercise.
Question #3
Natural selection favored alleles for light skin in:
A.   South America.
B.   Europe.
C.   Australia.
D.   Africa.
Question #4
Franz Boas:
A.   showed that U.S.-born children had different head shapes than their immigrant parents.
B.   created racial categories based on living populations in the United States.
C.   showed that U.S.-born children had the same head shapes as their immigrant parents.
D.   was a strong supporter of the race concept.
Question #5
C. Loring Brace argued that the race concept:
A.   can be traced to the Renaissance, when seafaring travelers observed differences between people from distant lands.
B.   was first used by Marco Polo as he recorded huge amounts of information during his travels in Asia.
C.   originated in ancient Egypt.
D.   has been present throughout human history.
Question #6
Homeostasis may be studied directly by:
A.   observing differences in such measures as body temperature across human groups.
B.   identifying the genome of a given population of humans.
C.   observing living populations as they engage in various activities in various settings.
D.   experimentally manipulating or replicating environmental conditions and observing human responses.
Question #7
Developmental (or ontogenetic) adaptation:
A.   involves using material culture to make living possible in certain settings.
B.   occurs at the individual level throughout an individual’s lifetime.
C.   occurs at the population level via natural selection.
D.   occurs at the individual level during childhood.
Question #8
A cline:
A.   is variation that falls into discrete categories.
B.   is continuous variation that follows a continuum.
C.   describes the pattern of occurrence of trisomy 18.
D.   was used to describe human variation as early as the Renaissance.
Question #9
The long limb measurements of Turkana pastoralists indicate that the population:
A.   has body proportions that are not well adapted to warmer climates.
B.   is on the continuum of variation observed in Allen’s rule.
C.   is well adapted for life at high latitudes, as Allen’s rule predicts for pastoralist populations.
D.   represents the variability that results from Wolff’s law of skeletal replacement.

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