2 What is anthropology The study of a Cultures b Fossils c Rocks d Humans d Anthropology is the study of humans at all times in all places from a comparative and holistic perspective 3 What are the four major subfields of Anthropology a cultural biological linguistic archaeology b cultural geological paleontological archaeology c biological physical archaeology cultural d sociology geology geography archaeology a cultural biological linguistic archaeology 6 The idea that the rates and processes of change that we can observe today were the same in the past is called a Catastrophism b Provenience c Uniformitarianism d Stratigraphy c Uniformitarianism TRUE OR FALSE Scientific creationism is scientific False does not follow scientific method Anthropologists follow a professional code of ethics that is concerned in part with the welfare of the people they study True 13 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace are 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 selection A story that accounts for a society s origin is called a origin story b bible c creation myth d origin epic c creation myth myth is not derogatory According to scientific taxonomy which Order do we humans belong to Primates Following a traditional taxonomy we can divide primates into a more primitive and a more recent grouping What do we call the more recent group the one we belong to anthropoids The physical characteristics of the anthropoids are used to typify primates What is the name of the other more primitive grouping of primates prosimians What does primitive mean evolved earlier appeared earlier in fossil record Today two organisms may share a physical characteristic for example they may both have wings This similarity may come about in two different ways a either by convergent evolution similar selective forces led to a similar solution b or by having shared an earlier common ancestor that had that trait What do we call choice b homology which is what we are looking to find by learning about other modern primates Do 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 eye goes to both sides of our brain we see in color Among primates vision has become more important than what other sense vision has become more important than smell When we say our eyes are protected by a postorbital bar what do we mean a there is a bar behind the eye b a bony socket surrounds the back of the eye c we wear helmet with bars circling our heads d none of the above b a bony socket surrounds the back of the eye It is solid bone What is the definition for prehensile a five digits b layering c lazy d grasping or ability to grasp d grasping or ability to grasp primate hands can open door knobs here s what Dr Wagner s bedroom doorknob looks like after her dog evidently tried to open it using teeth As you ll see the feet of most primates are prehensile In 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 thumbs You are about to see drawings comparing ape and human hands and feet pay attention to the relative length of the thumbs and how opposable they would be Do anthropoid primates have claws or nails They have nails just like you What goes along in finger anatomy with having nails as opposed to claws Tactile pads where we find our fingerprints
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