Ancient DNA has been extensively used to __________
a. determine cause of death and identify individuals
b. study the evolution of Homo sapiens
c. examine interbreeding among families
d. examine migration patterns and determine the sex of skeletal remains
Correct Answer: d
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The scientist who coined the name Homo sapiens for human beings and placed them in a higher taxonomic group (primates) was:
a. Charles Darwin. b. Georges Cuvier. c. Carolus Linnaeus. d. Robert Hooke.
Alliance theory argues that incest taboos are universal because:
A) they decrease the amount of genetic harmfulness and reduce the number of weak offspring. B) they decrease the potential for family conflict and disruption of role relationships. C) they force people to create wider social bonds that are useful in group survival. D) all societies have the same rules of exogamy and endogamy. E) they increase the number of marriageable pairs within a society and allow populations to grow at a higher rate.
During the Middle Pleistocene, premodern Homo sapiens invented the _____ technique
a. Acheulean b. Levallois c. Mousterian d. Chatelperronean e. Oldowan
Why are informal interviews central to ethnographic fieldwork?
a. They provide a fixed structure that allows the researcher to quantify the data collection. b. They are conversations between friends and allow the anthropologist access to information that is confidential. c. They are part-time ways of gathering data that allow the anthropologist time to do other work while working inthe field. d. They are casual exchanges in which the anthropologists can gain insight into the things that matter most to thecultural group. e. They are pieces of a larger conversation and allow anthropologists to work in a team with each personcontributing to the conversation.