Why is the evolutionary placement of Neandertals such a controversial matter?
What will be an ideal response?
Their behavior and physiology indicate a group that both has and does not have characteristics of Homo; depending on whether scientists adhere to the classification ideas of lumping or splitting, this group of humans may or may not be included in the genus Homo.
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Several years ago, the Italian tourism minister commented on the "typical characteristics" of Germans, causing a huge controversy as to whether or not a people could be labeled. This labeling and grouping is called:
a. modal personality. b. national character. c. stereotype. d. group personality. e. independence training.
Which of the following groups is more accepting of mass media in Brazil?
A. older men B. clergy C. women D. elites E. intellectuals
All of the following are ways that globalization has affected anthropology except:
a. Anthropologists have become increasingly more politically engaged with indigenous peoples. b. Anthropologists have become more active in social action to defend minority populations. c. Anthropologists today are more focused on studying relationships and exchanges between populations. d. Studies today are more holistic and tend to focus on the particular and specific characteristics of the societies in which the anthropologist is researching. e. Anthropologists frequently collaborate with those they study in order to better represent the culture and its changes.
Whose job is it to identify skeletal remains?
a. Historic archaeology b. Ethnology c. Forensic anthropology d. Educational anthropology