The earliest hominoid fossils date to just before the ________ epoch.
A. Oligocene
B. Pleistocene
C. Miocene
D. Holocene
E. Pliocene
Answer: C
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In understanding the problems with attempts at human racial classification, why is it important to know the difference between genotype and phenotype?
A. The phenotypic traits typically used to classify humans into races go together as genetic units. B. Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis. C. Attempts at human racial classification have typically used genotypic traits like blood type as markers of common ancestry, and these traits are passed on from generation to generation in discrete bundles. D. Although phenotypic characteristics may change, the genetic material of populations stays the same for a long time. E. Attempts at human racial classification have typically used phenotypic traits like skin color as markers of common ancestry, but many such traits do not reflect shared genetic material. Instead, they are often the result of different populations biologically adapting to similar environmental stressors in similar ways.
Homo heidelbergensis refers to finds from China dating to between 850,000 and 200,000 years ago
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Some Neandertal physical characteristics may have arisen as adaptations to a ______ environment
a. humid b. hot c. cold d. tropical e. high altitude
A critical insight of medical anthropology is that:
a. Disease and medicine never exist independently from culture. b. Diseases are universal, biological entities and have little relation to culture. c. There is a single, universal medical model that is applicable to all cultures. d. Although diseases may have different names and different treatments in different cultures, the same diseases are present in all cultures. e. Traditional cultures have a greater number of diseases that modern medicine considers "psychological" than does modern culture.