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6. Racism
a. is the opposite of Eugenics
b. reflects the most recent results of research by physical
anthropologists on human biological variation
c. takes a social construction approach to understanding race
d. argues that some human groups are biologically inferior
7. An example of social intelligence in monkeys and apes:
a. intentional burial of the dead
b. temporal displacement in tool use
c. handedness
d. formation of coalitions and alliances
8. A good example of clinal variation in human biology:
a. distinct races
b. shovel-shaped incisors
c. stereoscopic vision
d. prehensility
9. A forensic anthropologist is most likely to
a. use chronometric dating
b. live in a study community for a year or more
c. observe apes in natural settings
d. determine the cause of death of a crime victim
10. A category of bipedal primates not included within Genus Homo:
a. Australopithecines
b. Hominoids
c. Anthropoids
d. Homo erectus
11. The earliest human migration into the New World:
a. 12,000 years ago
b. 50,000 to 60,000 years ago
c. 3,000 years ago
d. 100,000 years ago
12. Earliest evidence for percussion flaking:
a. Oldowan chopper-chopping tool
b. hand axe
c. Homo sapiens sapiens in Europe
d. chimpanzees
30.
a.
b.
c.
d.
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In Old World populations, darkness of skin color, or, more
properly, the amount of melanin contained in skin, is related to
the amount of sunlight received in a geographic area.
The growth in brain size that distinguishes genus Homo from the
apes and other hominids is first evident in:
the earliest Australopithecines
the Miocene
Asia
Homo habilis
31. During the early decades of the 20th century Franz Boas used
what kind of data to evaluate the validity of the race concept:
a. measurements taken from descendants of immigrants
b. radioactive isotopes
c. osteology
d. relative dating method
32. The 14C dating method could be applied to
a. dating an archaeological site that is 2,000 years old
b. dating an archaeological site that is 3 million years old
c. dating a Homo erectus site
d. dating the fossil remains of early monkeys
33. The earliest known hominids:
a. 24 million years ago
b. 6-8 million years ago
c. 55-65 million years ago
d. 100,000 years ago