Exam 1: What Is Physical Anthropology

A) has been upheld by subsequent scientific data on human origins.
B) was developed in consultation with genetic and fossil evidence.
C) has been rejected recently subsequent to new fossil evidence.
D) has become a scientific law.

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A) social learning
B) television
C) social media
D) mimicry

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A) it was the first evolutionary development that distinguished humans from other animals.
B) it was possible only after the advent of simple material culture.
C) it followed brain expansion in human evolution.
D) it allowed hominids to come out of the trees and make tools 10 mya.

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A) skeletal pathology.
B) primate behavior.
C) fossilized nonprimate remains.
D) human evolution

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A) physiology, culture, and planning
B) biology, culture, and religion
C) physiology, behavior, and religion
D) biology, culture, and behavior

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A) walking on two feet.
B) walking on four feet.
C) walking using two legs and a tail.
D) swinging from branch to branch.

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A) poor health, reduced height, and shortened life expectancy.
B) poor speech and excessive eating habits.
C) poor reading comprehension.
D) inability to think critically and develop long-term planning.

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A theory is an explanation that has been...

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A) your biological makeup defines who you are and your personality comes from your environment.
B) every person is a product of evolutionary history and each of us is the product of our own individual life histories.
C) you are what your genes make you and your environment has no effect.
D) You are what your environment makes you and your genes have no effect.

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The scientific method includes an observation, development of a hypothesis, experimentation, data collection, and conclusions. Data are used to test hypotheses, possible explanations for the processes under study, by observing and then rejecting or accepting the hypotheses. After observations are collected, scientists develop a theory, which is an explanation, not just a description, of phenomena.

A) primates and religious beings.
B) primates, religious, and cultural beings.
C) biological and cultural beings.
D) cultural and religious beings.

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A) focus their work on skeletal analysis of individuals.
B) study skeletal remains from past human populations.
C) study the evolution of human skeletal traits.
D) do not work outside academia.

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A) linguistic comprehension.
B) subsistence strategies.
C) material culture.
D) ideology.

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A) what species of nonhuman primate occupies this region
B) how current populations of immigrants have changed local dialects
C) how to excavate and study material culture
D) how to socially navigate life in a Central American setting

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A) the study of human evolution.
B) largely devoted to recovering artifacts and building museum collections.
C) the study of the behavior and material culture of past human societies.
D) the study of the evolution of language.

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A) age, sex, height, and biological ancestry.
B) sex, weight, personal history, and age.
C) biological ancestry, sex, and skin color.
D) skin, hair, and eye color.

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A) It combines cultural studies with archaeology.
B) It examines the interaction between biology and culture in shaping human biology.
C) It is strictly a biological science.
D) It considers culture to be a byproduct of our biological histories.

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