Question 1

Of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories,purportedly based on common ancestry,which is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  They are applied to endogamous breeding populations. 
B)  They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics. 
C)  They are based on global racial categories that vary little from one society to another. 
D)  They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization. 
E)  They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume they are based in biology. 
A)  They are applied to endogamous breeding populations. 
B)  They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics. 
C)  They are based on global racial categories that vary little from one society to another. 
D)  They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization. 
E)  They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume they are based in biology.

Question 2

What term refers to an organism's evident traits,its "manifest biology?"

Accepted Answer

A)  manifest destiny 
B)  genotype 
C)  biological circumscription 
D)  phenotype 
E)  hereditary inequality 
A)  manifest destiny 
B)  genotype 
C)  biological circumscription 
D)  phenotype 
E)  hereditary inequality

Question 3

The role of natural selection in producing variation in human skin color illustrates the explanatory approach to explaining human biological diversity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Allen's rule states that protruding body parts grow shorter as temperature increases.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Thanks to medical advances,genetic resistance to diseases no longer confers any selective advantage.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

How has contemporary work in genomics helped scientists address questions of human biological diversity?

Accepted Answer

Contemporary work in genomics has greatl

Question 7

East Asians who have migrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population.This illustrates that

Accepted Answer

A)  natural selection continues today. 
B)  genetic adaptation of environmental stressors can occur within one generation. 
C)  cultural adaptation provides effective shortcuts to the genetically disadvantaged in a foreign environment. 
D)  because of global warming, the lack of sunlight that people are exposed to in these northern regions is made up for by the intensity of the sunlight. 
E)  natural selection's role in determining skin color is a thing of the past, relevant only prior to the sixteenth century when massive migrations of populations altered the geographic distribution of dark-skinned people. 
A)  natural selection continues today. 
B)  genetic adaptation of environmental stressors can occur within one generation. 
C)  cultural adaptation provides effective shortcuts to the genetically disadvantaged in a foreign environment. 
D)  because of global warming, the lack of sunlight that people are exposed to in these northern regions is made up for by the intensity of the sunlight. 
E)  natural selection's role in determining skin color is a thing of the past, relevant only prior to the sixteenth century when massive migrations of populations altered the geographic distribution of dark-skinned people.

Question 8

Physical features cluster into discrete genetic units.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Indigenous highlanders living in the Andean Altiplano in South America,in the Tibetan plateau in Asia,and at the highest elevations of the Ethiopian highlands in east Africa have all adapted to living in an environment of oxygen-thin air.Researchers have found that

Accepted Answer

A)  each population has evolved its own distinctly different biological adaptation to this environment. 
B)  these populations share the same mechanism of adaptation to hypoxic environments, proving that there was gene flow among these groups until very recently. 
C)  Andeans and Tibetans rely more on cultural means of adapting to hypoxic environments than highland Ethiopians do. 
D)  these populations illustrate humans' capacity to survive in extreme environments that have remained unchanged for more than 20,000 years. 
E)  cultural adaptations are more important than biological adaptations. 
A)  each population has evolved its own distinctly different biological adaptation to this environment. 
B)  these populations share the same mechanism of adaptation to hypoxic environments, proving that there was gene flow among these groups until very recently. 
C)  Andeans and Tibetans rely more on cultural means of adapting to hypoxic environments than highland Ethiopians do. 
D)  these populations illustrate humans' capacity to survive in extreme environments that have remained unchanged for more than 20,000 years. 
E)  cultural adaptations are more important than biological adaptations.

Question 10

Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories,purportedly based on common ancestry,which is true?

What term refers to an organism's evident traits,its "manifest biology?"

The role of natural selection in producing variation in human skin color illustrates the explanatory approach to explaining human biological diversity.

Allen's rule states that protruding body parts grow shorter as temperature increases.

Thanks to medical advances,genetic resistance to diseases no longer confers any selective advantage.

How has contemporary work in genomics helped scientists address questions of human biological diversity?

East Asians who have migrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population.This illustrates that

Physical features cluster into discrete genetic units.

Indigenous highlanders living in the Andean Altiplano in South America,in the Tibetan plateau in Asia,and at the highest elevations of the Ethiopian highlands in east Africa have all adapted to living in an environment of oxygen-thin air.Researchers have found that

Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.

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Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology

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Exam 6: Human Variation and Adaptation

Of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories,purportedly based on common ancestry,which is true?

What term refers to an organism's evident traits,its "manifest biology?"

The role of natural selection in producing variation in human skin color illustrates the explanatory approach to explaining human biological diversity.

Allen's rule states that protruding body parts grow shorter as temperature increases.

Thanks to medical advances,genetic resistance to diseases no longer confers any selective advantage.

How has contemporary work in genomics helped scientists address questions of human biological diversity?

East Asians who have migrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population.This illustrates that

Physical features cluster into discrete genetic units.

Indigenous highlanders living in the Andean Altiplano in South America,in the Tibetan plateau in Asia,and at the highest elevations of the Ethiopian highlands in east Africa have all adapted to living in an environment of oxygen-thin air.Researchers have found that

Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Applying Anthropology

Doing Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

Evolution and Genetics

The Primates

Early Hominins

Archaic Homo

The Origin and Spread of Modern Humans

The First Farmers

The First Cities and States

Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Language and Communication

Ethnicity and Race

Making a Living

Political Systems

Gender

Families, Kinship, and Descent

Marriage

Religion

Arts, Media, and Sports

The World System and Colonialism

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Filters