Exam 7: Modern Human Diversity: Race and Racism

All of the following are true regarding human skin except:

There is a genetic basis for certain abilities in different populations. For example, some populations are genetically endowed to play sports, others for specific professions like law enforcement or education.

Blumenbach referred to inhabitants of Asia, including China and Japan, as _______________.

What percentage of the United States population is considered to get little exercise and be overweight?

The Nuremberg race laws of 1935 were associated with the deaths of approximately how many people?

Blumenbach argued that degeneration of human types was caused by:

BPA (bisphenol-A) has recently been associated with higher rates of:

High crime rates, alcoholism, and drug use among certain groups can be explained with reference to _______________ rather than biology.

Ota Benga was 15 when he was first brought to the United States.

Over the past _______________ million years, all populations of the genus Homo have adapted primarily through culture.

Race has no objective scientific basis yet persists as a social and political category in many societies. Discuss several reasons why this concept has remained and how it is used where you live.

Human biological variation is best expressed as a _______________.

What primary arguments does Jonathan Marks raise against the premise that athletics is based on race?

All of the following are true of the race concept except:

In times of scarcity, individuals with the thrifty genotype conserve:

The only reproductive barrier that exists for humans is cultural.

What do we call the practice in the United States of assigning race to the parent believed to pertain to a minority group (known also as the "one drop rule")?

The 18ᵗʰ-century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus originally divided humans into subspecies based on:

The biological race concept is not applicable to human variation.

_______________ blocks the sun's radiation into the human body.