Why is it incomplete to simply call anthropology "the study of humans"?
A) Many other disciplines also study humans.
B) The focus of anthropology is on pre-human creatures.
C) Anthropologists study only certain aspects of human life.
D) Anthropologists study all species of mammals.
Answer: A
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What is an ascribed status?
A. A status that a person has little or no choice about occupying B. A status that a person chooses C. A status that a person earns, as when a successful law student becomes a lawyer D. A position of dominance in a society E. A status based on standardized test scores
All of the following evidence challenges the "Man the Hunter" theory except:
a. the natural hunting ability of humankind and the gendered division of labor that we see today in human societies b. lack of artifacts in the earliest archaeological record to support controlled fire and weaponry. c. evidence of tooth marks from large predators on early human remains. d. physical imbalance and inequality of small hominids and large predators. e. evidence that large predators still threaten contemporary human populations.
There is nearly universal agreement that the hominins found outside of Africa are all members of the genus
a. Plesiomorphus. b. Cladisticus. c. Phylogeneticus. d. Homo. e. Hetero.
Anthropologists speculate that early stone tools found in East Africa were made by
A) Paranthropus robustus B) Homo sapiens C) early Homo D) Australopithecus afarensis