Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 142. What is anthropology? The study of:a. Culturesb. Fossilsc. Rocksd. Humansd. Anthropology is the study of humans,at all times, in all places, from a comparativeand holistic perspective.3. What are the four major subfields ofAnthropology?a. cultural, biological, linguistic, archaeologyb. cultural, geological, paleontological, archaeologyc. biological, physical, archaeology, culturald. sociology, geology, geography, archaeologya. cultural, biological, linguistic, archaeology6. The idea that the rates and processes ofchange that we can observe today were thesame in the past is called:a. Catastrophismb. Proveniencec. Uniformitarianismd. Stratigraphyc. UniformitarianismTRUE OR FALSEScientific creationism is scientific.Anthropologists follow a professional code of ethics that is concerned, in part, with the welfare of the people they study.False – does not follow scientific methodTrue13. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallaceare famous for:a. Figuring out the Law of Superposition.b. Inheritance of acquired characteristics.c. Figuring out that rates and processes of change in the past were the same as can be observed today.d. The idea of Natural Selection as a mechanism for change (evolution) in organisms.d. Natural selectionA story that accounts for a society’sorigin is called:a. origin storyb. biblec. creation mythd. origin epicc. creation myth“myth” is not derogatory!According to scientific taxonomy, whichOrder do we humans belong to?PrimatesFollowing a traditional taxonomy, we candivide primates into a more primitive and amore recent grouping.What do we call the more recent group, theone we belong to?anthropoidsThe physical characteristics of the anthropoidsare used to typify primates.What is the name of the other, more primitivegrouping of primates?prosimiansWhat does “primitive” mean?evolved earlier, appeared earlier in fossil recordToday, two organisms may share a physicalcharacteristic – for example, they may bothhave wings.This similarity may come about in two different ways:a) either by convergent evolution – similar selective forces led to a similar solutionb) or by having shared an earlier common ancestor that had that traitWhat do we call choice b?homology,which is what we are looking to find by learningabout other modern primatesDo most anthropoids see the same way we see?Yes! What does that mean?Good visual acuity (focus), good depth vision,we see stereoscopically (image from each eyegoes to both sides of our brain), we see in colorAmong primates, vision has become moreimportant than what other sense?vision has become more important than smellWhen we say our eyes are protected by apostorbital bar, what do we mean?a. there is a bar behind the eyeb. a bony socket surrounds the back of the eyec. we wear helmet with bars circling our headsd. none of the aboveb. a bony socket surrounds the back of the eyeIt is solid boneWhat is the definition for prehensile?a. five digitsb. layeringc. lazyd. grasping or ability to graspd. grasping or ability to graspprimate hands can open door knobs!here’s what Dr. Wagner’s bedroom doorknob looks like after her dog evidently tried to open it using teethAs you’ll see, the feet of most primatesare prehensileIn order to be able to pick up Cheerios,what characteristic do human hands have?(hint: most of you listed this as a human character)opposable thumbsYou are about to see drawings comparingape and human hands and feet – pay attentionto the relative length of the thumbs and howopposable they would be!Do anthropoid primates have claws or nails?They have nails, just like you.What goes along in finger anatomy withhaving nails as opposed to claws?Tactile pads (where we find our
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