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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1
QUIZ # 1
Chose the best answer.
1.
Physical anthropology does NOT include:
a. archaeology.
b. linguistics.
c. forensics.
d. genetics.
ANS: B
NOT: Factual
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 6
TOP: Four Subfields (1.a)
2. How has Franz Boas contributed to anthropology in the United States?
a. He brought together the various disciplines of anthropology to create the
four-field approach of American anthropology.
b. He used perspectives of both living and past cultures.
c. He was responsible for training the first generation of academic anthropologists in the United
States.
d. all of the above
Ans. D
NOT: Applied
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 8
TOP: What Is Anthropology? (1)
3. Bipedalism is considered one of the hallmarks of hominid evolution
because:
a. it was the first evolutionary development that clearly distinguished us
from other animals.
b. it was possible only after the advent of simple material culture.
c. it followed brain expansion in human evolution.
d. it allowed hominids to come out of the trees and make tools 10 mya.
ANS: A
NOT: Applied
DIF: Medium
REF: Page 14
TOP: Bipedalism (7.a)
4. Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species (1859) was considered an
important contribution to modern science because:
a. it coined the concept of evolution.
b. it synthesized information from diverse scientific fields in order to
document evolutionary change.
c. it was immediately and widely accepted by the scientific community as
the mechanism for evolutionary change.
d. none of the above
ANS: B
NOT: Conceptual
DIF: Medium
REF: Page 40
TOP: What Was Darwin’s Contribution to the Theory of Evolution? (4)
5.James Hutton is associated with:
a. adaptation.
b. catastrophism.
c. uniformitarianism.
d. principles of heredity.
ANS: C
NOT: Factual
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 29
TOP: Context for Darwin (3)
6. The English demographer whose work on population growth greatly influenced Darwin’s
thinking was:
a. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck.
b. Georges Cuvier.
c. Thomas Malthus.
d. Charles Lyell.
ANS: C
NOT: Factual
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 37
TOP: Context for Darwin (3)
7. The physical expression of an organism’s genetic constitution is called its:
a. karyotype.
b. phenotype.
c. stereotype.
d. genotype.
ANS: B
NOT: Factual
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 44
TOP: Mendel’s Discovery of Principles of Inheritance (7.b)
8. The only possible source of new genetic material is:
a. natural selection.
b. mutation.
c. gene flow.
d. gene drift.
ANS: B
NOT: Factual
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 46
TOP: Evolutionary Forces and Synthesis (9)
9. The scientist whose work provided the foundation for later understandings
of genetics was:
a. John Ray.
b. Gregor Mendel.
c. Charles Darwin.
d. Robert Hook.
ANS: B
NOT: Factual
DIF: Easy
REF: Page 41
TOP: Mendel’s Discovery of Principles of Inheritance (7.b)
10 The H1N1 virus is a good example of rapid evolution. How do you arrive at
this conclusion?
a. There is evidence of this in the fossil record.
b. An outbreak occurred in recent years.
c. It originated in animals and then evolved to infect humans.
d. After a dormant period it becomes avian flu.
ANS C
NOT: Applied
DIF: Medium
REF: Page 51
TOP: Modern Understanding of Evolution (11)