Which of the subfields of anthropology specializes in investigating the biological evolution of the human species?
a. Archaeology
b. Primatology
c. Paleoanthropology
d. Applied linguistics
C
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Susan Montague and Robert Morais (1981) argue that Americans appreciate football because it presents a miniaturized and simplified version of modern organizations. These researchers
A. argue that football allows spectators to vicariously realize their own hostile and aggressive tendencies. B. suggest that football is a peculiarly American pastime because of our wartime history. C. argue that football should be regulated the same way we regulate corporations. D. suggest that football, with its territorial incursion and violence, is popular because Americans are violent people. E. link football's values, particularly teamwork, to those associated with business.
According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest,"
a. overcrowding was not a problem at the prisons she studied. b. women were very well paid for the work they did in the prison. c. women sometimes faked illness to get faster medical attention. d. women had equal and unfettered access to adequate medical care.
This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes illustrates
A. human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and physiological adaptations. B. how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic. C. how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some 10,000 years ago. D. how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture. E. the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme environments.
Based on scientific theories of evolution, humans are not descended from gorillas or chimps. Rather,
A. they are descended from gorillas. B. humans are descended from Adam and Eve. C. they are descended from chimps. D. humans and African apes share a common ancestor. E. it is the other way around: gorillas and chimps are descended from humans.