The four main subdisciplines of anthropology consist of
A. medical anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, and cultural anthropology.
B. archaeology, biological anthropology, applied linguistics, and applied anthropology.
C. biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.
D. genetic anthropology, physical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
E. primatology, ethnology, cultural anthropology, and paleopathology.
C
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Recent DNA analysis of Australian Aborigines has revealed that their ancestors branched off from ancestral Europeans and Asians 70,000 to 50,000 years ago. This research indicates
A. Australian Aborigines developed a dark skin color independently from Africans. B. aboriginal Australians have a more recent population history than Europeans. C. ancestral Australian Aborigines had cultural but not genetic isolation. D. Australian Aborigines maintained regular contact with people from other continents. E. Australian Aborigines are direct descendants of the first modern humans to leave Africa.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
Causal plots can have one or several lines of action.
A reason that the Madagascar project to increase rice production was successful is that
A. it took into account that native forms of social organization inevitably break down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and alienation. B. the elites and the lower class were of different origins and therefore had no strong connections through kinship, descent, or marriage. C. Malagasy leaders were of the peasantry, or had strong ties to it, and therefore were prepared to follow the descent-group ethic of pooling resources for the good of the group as a whole. D. the educated members of Malagasy society are those who have struggled to fend for themselves and therefore brought an innovative kind of independence to the project. E. there is a clear fit between capitalist development schemes and corporate descent-group social organization.
The evolution of a single population into a number of different species is called:
A. phyletic expansion B. punctuated equilibrium C. adaptive radiation D. natural diversion