N201 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ LATEST
UPDATE
True/False: Hunter gatherers live the way our ancestors most likely did for 95% of
human evolution.
True
What can we learn from hunter gatherers with regard to their relationship to the
land?
Subsistence ecology
True/False: Hunter gatherers have no wars.
False.
What factors are determinants of whether we live the hunter gatherer lifestyle?
the environment and the best adaptations to live there and have the highest RS
What were humans selected and encephalized for?
High adaptability
What are the 9 levels of causation?
Phylogeny, Natural Selection, Genome, Embryology/Maturation, Sensitive period
Effects, Routine Environmental Effects, Longer term physiology, Short term physiology,
and Elicitors
What is the purpose of animals?
,They are a gene's way of duplicating themselves
In what type of society did women first earn the title of "working mother"?
Hunter-gatherers; women collected about 70% of the food and did 90% of the childcare;
men and women contribute to food about equally between plants and animals
What do most hunter gatherer diets consist of?
50% meat, 50% plants
True/False: The !Kung diet is a good representation of a typical hunter gatherer
diet.
False
What is the biggest fault in the paleo diet's stars?
They assume that hunter gatherers ate no grains
True/False: original hunter gatherers lived in small populations, far away from
one another, and were semi nomadic.
True
True/False: even in hunter gatherer society, women are looked down upon by
men and excluded from social processes like the Trance Dance and Fire Talks.
False
What happened to the role of women in hunter gatherer society with increased
population density?
As the population increase, specialization increased, creating a separation between
public and private space. Women were not allowed to leave the private space (home)
and enter the public space.
,What is one explanation for why women in some cultures must cover their entire
body whenever they are not in their home?
Men do not want them to be attractive to other men and potentially mate with someone
else.
What is one explanation for why women in some cultures cannot leave the home
unless they are escorted by a man of their family?
Men do not want them to leave and potentially mate with someone else.
What was discussed around the hunter gatherer fire?
Everything from politics, religion, health, education, who should divorce, etc.
True/False: Hunter gatherers plan wars around the fire.
False
True/False: Most hunter gatherer homicides or cases of violence are due to
matters of personal harm caused by another person, such as cuckoldery.
True
True/False: Hunter gatherers formerly lived far apart enough to resolve conflicts
through fission/fusion.
True
What is the basis of civilization?
Continual war and war prep
Why do people in civilizations have war and most hunter gatherers do not?
Once people settled and began growing crops on their land, any partial threat to that
land (thus to their livelihood and RS) needed to be met with a threat and extinguishing
force
, True/False: If hunter gatherer groups ran into one another and communicated,
they could avoid any potential violence.
False
True/False: the best EEA is the !Kung EEA.
False
What did diversity of religious belief encourage?
War between ingroup and outgroup
What happened during Enlightenment?
Many different kinds of people were brought together who identify as the human race
rather than with their religious sect
How is it possible for two groups of bushmen in Africa to be more different than
Europeans are from Asians?
There is a larger, more diverse gene pool in Africa to start with. One group diverged and
then split to become the Europeans and Asians.
Does the fact that different races are genetically different from one another imply
that humans are not a single species?
No. Our modern species exists as of 100 kya
True/False: the !Kung live in the rainforest.
False, they live in an area with semi rainfall, sandy soil, and sparse vegetation
True/False: the !Kung had no weapons or tools
False, they have bows, poison arrows, spears, and traps
True/False: the !Kung have no way of preserving pelts or meat
False, they hang them for preservation
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ LATEST
UPDATE
True/False: Hunter gatherers live the way our ancestors most likely did for 95% of
human evolution.
True
What can we learn from hunter gatherers with regard to their relationship to the
land?
Subsistence ecology
True/False: Hunter gatherers have no wars.
False.
What factors are determinants of whether we live the hunter gatherer lifestyle?
the environment and the best adaptations to live there and have the highest RS
What were humans selected and encephalized for?
High adaptability
What are the 9 levels of causation?
Phylogeny, Natural Selection, Genome, Embryology/Maturation, Sensitive period
Effects, Routine Environmental Effects, Longer term physiology, Short term physiology,
and Elicitors
What is the purpose of animals?
,They are a gene's way of duplicating themselves
In what type of society did women first earn the title of "working mother"?
Hunter-gatherers; women collected about 70% of the food and did 90% of the childcare;
men and women contribute to food about equally between plants and animals
What do most hunter gatherer diets consist of?
50% meat, 50% plants
True/False: The !Kung diet is a good representation of a typical hunter gatherer
diet.
False
What is the biggest fault in the paleo diet's stars?
They assume that hunter gatherers ate no grains
True/False: original hunter gatherers lived in small populations, far away from
one another, and were semi nomadic.
True
True/False: even in hunter gatherer society, women are looked down upon by
men and excluded from social processes like the Trance Dance and Fire Talks.
False
What happened to the role of women in hunter gatherer society with increased
population density?
As the population increase, specialization increased, creating a separation between
public and private space. Women were not allowed to leave the private space (home)
and enter the public space.
,What is one explanation for why women in some cultures must cover their entire
body whenever they are not in their home?
Men do not want them to be attractive to other men and potentially mate with someone
else.
What is one explanation for why women in some cultures cannot leave the home
unless they are escorted by a man of their family?
Men do not want them to leave and potentially mate with someone else.
What was discussed around the hunter gatherer fire?
Everything from politics, religion, health, education, who should divorce, etc.
True/False: Hunter gatherers plan wars around the fire.
False
True/False: Most hunter gatherer homicides or cases of violence are due to
matters of personal harm caused by another person, such as cuckoldery.
True
True/False: Hunter gatherers formerly lived far apart enough to resolve conflicts
through fission/fusion.
True
What is the basis of civilization?
Continual war and war prep
Why do people in civilizations have war and most hunter gatherers do not?
Once people settled and began growing crops on their land, any partial threat to that
land (thus to their livelihood and RS) needed to be met with a threat and extinguishing
force
, True/False: If hunter gatherer groups ran into one another and communicated,
they could avoid any potential violence.
False
True/False: the best EEA is the !Kung EEA.
False
What did diversity of religious belief encourage?
War between ingroup and outgroup
What happened during Enlightenment?
Many different kinds of people were brought together who identify as the human race
rather than with their religious sect
How is it possible for two groups of bushmen in Africa to be more different than
Europeans are from Asians?
There is a larger, more diverse gene pool in Africa to start with. One group diverged and
then split to become the Europeans and Asians.
Does the fact that different races are genetically different from one another imply
that humans are not a single species?
No. Our modern species exists as of 100 kya
True/False: the !Kung live in the rainforest.
False, they live in an area with semi rainfall, sandy soil, and sparse vegetation
True/False: the !Kung had no weapons or tools
False, they have bows, poison arrows, spears, and traps
True/False: the !Kung have no way of preserving pelts or meat
False, they hang them for preservation
