Which primate locomotor pattern puts an animal in an upright posture, much like bipedalism?
A) vertical clinging and leaping
B) quadrupedalism
C) brachiation
D) running
C) brachiation
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Which continent faces losing the largest percentage of its indigenous languages?
A North America B South America C Australia D Asia E Europe
This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes illustrates
A. the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme environments. B. human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and physiological adaptations. C. how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture. D. how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some 10,000 years ago. E. how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.
The majority of Neandertal fossils have been found in
a. South America. b. Asia. c. India. d. Africa. e. Europe.
Higher primates first appeared in the __________ epoch
a. early Eocene b. late Oligocene c. late Eocene d. late Pleistocene