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

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

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