Biological Anthropology Questions

The level of the Linnean taxonomy in which different species are grouped together on the basis of their similarities of one another is called a A) CategoryB) ClassC) TaxonD) Genus

A comparative study of many cultures is calledA) EthnohistoryB) EthnographyC) EthnologyD) Ethnographer

By the early twentieth century, some anthropologists and biologists concluded that the concept of "race" was A) Justified by the increasingly scientific biological research on human beingsB) A cultural label invented by human beings to sort people into groupsC) A political liability, although the evidence was increasingly strong in its favorD) A label that recognized important intellectual and biological differences among groups

The major specialty within anthropology that involves the analysis of the material remains of the human past is A) Applied anthropologyB) ArchaeologyC) Biological anthropologyD) Cultural anthropology

To say that anthropology is comparative means thatA) Each anthropologist studies many different societies during his or her careerB) Anthropological generalizations must draw on evidence from many different societies and culturesC) Anthropologists use data from many different academic fields of study when they do their researchD) There is no one way for anthropologist to do research

Lamarkian evolution is also known asA) Variational evolutionB) Transformational evolutionC) Evolution by descentD) Notional selection

Evolutionary theory is based on a set ofA) Testable hypothesesB) Scientists' opinions about different speciesC) Assumptions about when life beganD) Observations of the natural world

A description of a particular culture is called anA) EthnohistoryB) EthnographyC) EthnologyD) Ethnographer

The subfield of anthropology that is concerned with proposing solution to practical problem is calledA) Applied anthropologyB) Biological anthropologyC) Cultural anthropologyD) Linguistic anthropology

In your text, evolution is defined asA) Descent with modificationB) Natural selection plus random accessC) The process of change over timeD) Material evidence

Which of the following is true about the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology?A) Medical anthropologists support the proposition that humans are biocultural organisms. B) Medical anthropologists are often employed to provide market research for pharmaceutical companies.C) Medical anthropologists avoid taking a critical stand on issues of social inequality in health care.D) It focuses exclusively on non-Western medical practices.

In a world in which people from different cultural backgrounds come into contact with one another for extended periods, anthropology offers aA) Solution to cultural misunderstandingsB) Means of learning to cope with cultural differencesC) Way of determining which cultural background is better under the circumstancesD) Set of techniques for removing cultural barriers

The "father of modern biological classification" is the title often given to A) Ernst MayrB) Carolus LinnaeusC) Charles DarwinD) Lamarck

In the textbook, anthropology is defined as a study ofA) Human nature, human society, and human pastB) the remains of earlier societies and peoplesC) the ways of life of contemporary peoplesD) the physical and mental capacities of human beings

Who among the following asserted that, over time, some species had been suddenly wiped out and replaced by new species from somewhere else?A) Margaret BouvierB) Georges DuvivierC) Georges CuvierD) Charles Lyell

That view that every "natural kind" of living thing is characterized by an unchanging core of features and seperated from all other natural kinds by a sharp beak isA) EssentialismB) CatastrophismC) UniformitarianismD) Natural selection

The claim that "living species can change over time and give rise to new kinds of organisms, with the result that all organisms ultimately share a common ancestry" is central to which theory?A) Genetic transformational theoryB) Evolutionary theoryC) Intelligent designD) Prehistoric positional theory

A contemporary cultural anthropologist is likely to studyA) Political institutions in a village in another countryB) Kinship systems in an urban settingC) Patterns of material life in his or her own societyD) Any of the above

To emphasize that human beings are biocultural organisms means thatA) Human biology and culture both contribute to human behaviorB) Human biology makes culture possible and human culture makes human biological survival possibleC) Instinct must be recognized as an important part of any explanation of human behaviorD) Both a and b

An extended period of close involvement by anthropologists with the people whose life is of interest to them is calledA) FieldworkB) SurveyingC) InterviewingD) Information gathering