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Anthro Basics
Biological Foundations
Primates
Race
Culture
100
This characteristic uniquely defines the anthropological approach
What is holistic?
100
Darwin’s theory was known as this theory.
What is natural selection?
100
Animals with a generalized anatomy, relatively large brain, and grasping hands and feet
What are primates?
100
This term is erroneously applied to people of European descent.
What is Caucasian?
100
This is considered to be shared, dynamic and based on symbols.
What is culture?
200
The detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork
What is ethnography?
200
A reproductively isolated population or group capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
200
This feature needs to be present in order for a hominoid fossil to be definitively classified as part of the human evolutionary line
What is bipedalism?
200
This feature has the primary function of protecting the skin against solar radiation.
What is melanin?
200
A group of individuals who share a common territory, language, and culture.
What is a society?
300
The preserved remains of plants and animals that have lived in the past.
What are fossils?
300
Alternate forms of a single gene.
What are alleles?
300
Frans de Waal, in his study of bonobos, has found that when this occurs after an attack, it may be more important that the attack itself.
What is reconciliation?
300
This scientist did measurements on skulls to attempt to demonstrate biological superiority of specific groups.
Who is Johann Blumenbach?
300
This the most essential tool for the anthropologist (an attitude).
What is cultural relativism?
400
The universal incest taboo prohibits sexual relations among these people.
What is siblings and parents and their children?
400
The four major evolutionary forces.
What are mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow?
400
This primate shares over 99% genetic similarity with human beings.
What is a chimpanzee?
400
The continuous gradation over space in the form or frequency of a genetic trait is known as this.
What is a cline?
400
This attitude should be avoided by those wishing to study culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Scientists have found that carrying sickle-cell anemia protects the individual from this disease.
What is malaria?
500
This is an applied field of anthropology that combines biological anthropology and cultural anthropology to address medical issues?
What is medical anthropology?
500
This is the reason why speech is unique to humans.
What is lack of anatomical features to speak like humans?
500
A high retention of lactase is found in populations with a long tradition of this food getting strategy.
What is herding?
500
These are the four elements of the barrel model of culture.
What is environment, infrastructure, social structure, and superstructure?