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

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

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