You are studying a population of people who have compact, round bodies with thick, short limbs. Based on Bergmann's and Allen's rules, these people probably live in what kind of environment?
A. a tropical desert
B. a hot jungle
C. an Arctic island
D. a tropical savanna region
Answer: C
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DNA hybridization of humans and chimpanzees indicate they share about _________ of their DNA base sequences
a. 99 percent b. 10 percent c. 28 percent d. 100 percent e. 95 percent
Which statement about the applied research of Susan Squires is true?
a. Since children are not very hungry when they wake-up at 6:30 a.m., they often leave the house at 7 a.m. without eating much of anything. b. Families with two working parents have more nutritious breakfasts than families with only one working parent. c. Her research led to the development of the breakfast cereal Fruit Loops. d. Children, parents, and grandparents in the U.S. generally agree on what constitutes a healthy breakfast. e. Breakfast is not a culturally significant topic of study.
Which of these is NOT a criticism made by Boas (and others) of the unilineal evolutionists?
a. They ignored the importance of Biblical understandings of culture. b. They were ethnocentric. c. There does not seem to be a single line of cultural development. d. The evolutionists were armchair anthropologists who did not collect their own data.
In "The Descent of Man," Charles Darwin
A) expressed the view that Europeans were biologically superior to Asians and Africans. B) maintained that the human species, like other species, evolved from earlier forms. C) hypothesized that humans and the great apes had a common ancestor. D) all of the above E) B and C