Which of the following groups of individuals would you expect to find the highest death rates from accidents or violence?

a. 10 to 15-year-old males
b. 15 to 29-year-old females
c. 15 to 29-year-old males
d. 35 to 42-year-old females


Correct Answer: c

Anthropology & Archaeology

You might also like to view...

Sites in Europe and Africa that date roughly between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago contain only parts of one or a very few individuals. The one exception is in northern Spain, where the remains of at least 28 individuals of both sexes —juveniles as well as adults—were deliberately dumped by their contemporaries into a deep cave shaft know today as:

a. El Valle de las Lagrimas. b. Sima de los Huevos. c. Sima de los Huesos. d. Cueva de Zhoukoudian. e. Cueva de las Manos.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Everything that humans do well is adaptive

a. True b. False

Anthropology & Archaeology

In a hypothetical situation, B is the allele that causes brachydactyly. If a man who has normal fingers (bb) and a woman with brachydactyly (Bb) have children, what proportion of these children would you expect to have normal fingers? (Hint: Use a Punnett square.)

a. 1/16 b. 1/8 c. 1/4 d. 3/4 e. 1/2

Anthropology & Archaeology

Quantitative variation refers to __________

a. rare variations b. non-overlapping phenotypic variants c. monogenic traits d. continuous variation for some trait

Anthropology & Archaeology