WVU ANTHRO 105 exam 1 ,2023 with 100% correct questions and answers

What is the real measure of success under natural selection? How may offspring are produced What is the founder effect? loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population Why is anthropology said to be "holistic"? it combines studies of biological and cultural phenomena Major goal(s) of anthropology? To understand diversities and similarities among human societies, both past and present The dominant sense of the primates is... Vision Which subfield of anthropology is concerned with the reconstruction of past cultural systems? archaeology To refer to something as a theory means that is... should be supported with evidence Which subfield of anthropology is concerned with humans as a biological species? physical anthropology what are mutations? the source of new genetic variation the earliest primate like fossils are said to date back to when? 65 million years ago Physical anthropologists who study variation within and among human populations would be interested in questions such as? why do most africans have dark skin? Many primates congregate in social groups, or communities, known as? troops individuals who study living, nonhuman primates are known as? primatologists Darwin's idea about the major process of evolution is called? natural selection The earliest members of genus Homo were places in that genus because of their... increased brain size Primate evolution has produced some morphological characteristics that represent adaptations to _______ conditions, or life in the trees aboreal differences in size and morphology between males and females is called... sexual dismorphism in general, speciation occurs when? a big mutation instantly produces a new species which subfield of anthropology is concerned with the human communication system? linguistic anthropology when a scientist begins with a general theory from which testable hypotheses are developed, he or she is said to be using the ______ method deductive _______ is the earliest and most important trend in hominid evolution? bipedalism the basic laws of inheritance were articulated by? Gregor Mendel The earliest well-established hominid fossils are places in genus _______? homo the study of past cultures and lifestyles is the goal of who? archaeologists Popular perceptions and misperceptions of other cultures have often been based on _____? ethnocentrism in science, a proposed explanation for some natural phenomenon is called a(n)? theory to say that anthropology is holistic means that it... overlaps and draws from the studies of many other disciplines the four subdisciplines of anthropology are... Physical, Linguistic, Cultural, and Archeology science is... a way of collecting facts scientists speculate that the first mammals related to the primates appeared during the paleocene about _________ years ago. 65 million the idea that organisms change during their lifetime and pass those changes onto their offspring is known as the theory of______ acquired characteristics a paleoanthropologist would be most likely to study what? fossilized human bones of early human ancestors grooming in primates is primarily a(n) ______ activity? social gorillas use an unusual quadrupedal form of locomotion called... knuckle walking the material products of former societies are known as artifacts which subfield of anthropology is concerned with explaining the behavior variation among human societies? cultural anthropology the characteristic that identifies hominids as a taxonomically distinct group from other primates is _______ habitual bipedalism You are visiting the zoo with some of your friends. You are looking at a primate in a cage that is hanging from its tail. your friends know that you are taking a course in anthropology and ask you, "What kind of primate is that?" You reply that it is a(n)? new world monkey the use of anthropological data to offer practical solutions to problems within a society is called... applied anthropology the science of classification, or ______, gives scientists a convenient way to referring to, and comparing, living, and extinct organisms taxonomy A group of organisms that have similar morphological characteristics and can potentially interbreed and produce viable, fertile offspring is called a(n)__________ species the name most closely associated with the system traditionally used to classify living things is... linneaus the individuals have characteristics that allow them to survive in a particular environment and reproduce, passing these traits on to their progeny, is known as ________ heritability all of the genes possessed by a population are known as its gene pool many new world monkeys have ______, while old world monkeys do not possess this characteristic prehensile tails Controversy surrounds the theory of evolution. Many different interpretations of hominin evolution (phylogenetic trees or family trees) have been advanced through the years. The fossil record is sparse at key times in the evolutionary narrative, and DNA is now being used to advance evolutionary theory. Despite these efforts, many assumptions and presuppositions continue to influence thinking and interpretation. That being the case, what can we assertively state about evolutionary theory as it is put forth in your text book, and in popular culture/media? Scientific not often arrive at absolute truths, and many evidences that we see in the media and in text books listed as "facts", are are often based on assumptions & presuppositions and therefore hominid (bipedal primates) origin is highly debated, with no clear "missing link" agreed on by scientists. Disagreement is common even within the field, and so called scientific proof is really a matter of what scientists feel is rchers do. There is very little fossil evidence detailing the evolution of hominids from about 30 to 20 million years ago _____ refers to the relative social status or rank of a primate, which is determined by its ability to compete successfully with its peers for objectives of value such as food and sexual partners dominance which is true of jane goodall? they conducted research which shed new light on the behavior of the great apes among the following, which is the most important concerning "Lucy"? lucy is the most complete skeleton (about 40%) of an early hominid (A. afarensis)