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To refer to something as a theory means that it?
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Has been well supported by scientific testing
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Homo habilis is associated with:
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Oldowan tool tradition
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Which tool tradition
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Most prosimians now live:
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On Madagascar and the islands of Southeast Asia
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The large size of the back teeth in early hominids was the result of:
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Eating gritty and coarse food
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Ehich of the following is classified in the basic side of anthropology
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Osteology
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The modification part of descent with modification means that
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Species change through time as a result of a number of natural processes
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Which subfield of anthropology is concerned witht eh human communication system?
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linguistic anthropology
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The anterior teeth of neandertals (incisors) displayed patterns of micro and macro wear that resulted from?
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Using them as tools in preperation of animal hides
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Which of the following jas not been proposed as an advantage of bipedalism?
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It is more energy efficent for running
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A set of directly interacting habitats make up an
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ecosystem
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To say that human race is a folk taxonomy means that
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It is an example of a set of cultural catagories
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The ability to grasp with the hands and sometimes feet is called
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prehensile
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Mutations are
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the source of new genetic varation
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Anatomically modern homo spaiens lived in
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All over the world
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The measure of success under natural selection is
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how well adapted the species is
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The brains of primates are
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larger in relative size then the brains of other mammals
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Which of the following is described as orthgnatic?
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homo sapiens sapiens
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What am I?
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When genes are exchanged or mixed between populations within a species, the process is called
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gene flow
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The name most closely associated with the system traditionally used to classify living this is
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Darwin
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Increased levels of ultraviolet radiation result in
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increased melanin production by the melanocytes
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Most primates give birth to (number of kids)
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one offspring at a time
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To say that anthropology is holistic means that is
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studies the whole human species
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The dominant sense of the primates is
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vision
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What is not associated with the evolution of anatomically modern homo spaiens
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the first use of fire
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the neandertals differed from modern humans in all but
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brain size
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The hutteries are genetically isolated, which means that they
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tend to marry only other hutteries
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the process that generates hypotheses is
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induction
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The basic laws of inheritance were articulated by:
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Gregor Mendel
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Alfred Russel Wallace is known for?
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Proposing explinations for evolution that differed from Darwin's
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Human are considered to be?
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Old World Primates
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Lucy is considered to be a hominid because?
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She was habitually bipedal
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The earliest well-established hominid fossils are placed in genus?
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Homo
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Which of the following supplies concrete evidence for the fact of evolution?
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The fossil record
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A species is best defined as
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A reproductively isolated group of organisms
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What isn't part of Lamarack's inheritance of acquired characteristics?
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Possibility of extinction when adaptation doesn't work
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Varations in phenotypic traits that result from genetic varations are called?
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Polymorphisms
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A belief is an idea that
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cannot be subjected to scientific inquiry
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Primates have a long period of dependency after birth becuase?
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They have more to learn then most animals in order to survive
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Which research technique is used widely by cultural antoroploogists, where they engage in other cultures?
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participant observation
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The evolution of genera Paranthropus and Homo took place how many years ago?
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3.2 million
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Whihc of the following features used to indicate for bipedalism?
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Location of foramen magnum in the base of the skull and carrying angle of femur
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Which of the following cultural achievements isn't associated with Homo?
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Building of shelters
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When somebody judges somebody elses culture from his own cultural background, he is an?
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Ethnocentric
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Humans differ most from the other primates in their?
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sexual behavior
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The major difference between members of genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus is in?
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robusticity of chewing area and chewing muscles
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In "A class divided" movie, the academic abilities of students were?
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Much better when students were switched between groups
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When a population splits into two or more new populations the process is called?
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Fission
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The connection between race and IQ is?
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completely nonexistant
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A common primate practice that serves to both maintain hygiene and group harmony and unity is called?
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Grooming
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The difference between modern humans and archaics involves all except?
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slope of the forehead
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Lucy was dated using potassium/argon. This is an example of?
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relative dating using stratigraphic relationships
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Folsom points differ from the Clovis ones how?
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Folsom points are smaller and thinner then clovis's
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What isn't a defining characteristic of civilization?
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peaceful coexistance with neighbors
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The first evidence of plant domestication comes from?
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Fertile crescent
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Where?
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The division of labor typical among foragers?
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men hunt and women gather
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Experimental archaeology refers to?
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The reconstruction of ancient skills and technologies
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The discovery phase of the archaeological research.....
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can be accidential
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What is a relative dating technique?
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seriation
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What isn't generally true of horticultural societies?
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full-time labor specialists
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Pastoral societies are defined as those that?
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Herd anumals as the basis of their subsistence
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Features in the archaeological sites are?
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Non-portable material culture and objects that can't be removed without archaeologists causing damage
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The radiocarbon dating technique can be used to date?
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Organic remains back to about 60,000 years ago
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What is correct about agricultural societies?
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They are stratified and politically complex
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The half-life of radioactive potassium in potassium/argon dating technique is?
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1.31 billion years
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Dendrochronology is?
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An absolute dating technique that is also known as tree-ring dating, and the most accurate technique of dating
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What is used to establish horizontal control at a site?
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A grid system
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Foraging societies are egalitarian, what does this mean?
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there are no recognized, formalized status or wealth status
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According to mid-continential route that explains migration to the new world?
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Asian hunters and gatheres passed via Bering Land Bridge following big game about 13,000 BP-12,000BP
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What characteristic isn't typical of foraging societies?
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individual land holdings
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The half-life of radioactive carbon (carbon 14) is?
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5730 years
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What describes the overall goal of archaeology?
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To reconstruct past cultural systems
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The main support evidence for the Atlantic route that explains migration to the new world is?
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the ability to explain similarties between solutrean tradition of Europe and clovis points
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The levallois technique?
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allows the manufacture of many flakes off of a single prepared core
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Test pits are used to?
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determine if a potential site is an archaeological site and to decide exactly where to dig
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In the movie "at the service of the state: archaeology as a political tool" who funded the research?
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mussolini
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According to the climatic change hypothesis, what explains the extinction of big game (megafunas)?
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Megafunas were not adapt with the climatic changes occured by the end of pleistocene (elevaion of temperature)
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What is most accurate regarding foraging societies in the world today?
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there are no societies left that are true forargers
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I helped your family move to a new home, so now that I am moving, I expect your family to help me. This is what?
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balanced reciprocity
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A market system is distuinguished by the presence of?
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money
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When we interpret some archaeological data by observing similar artifacts in use among living cultures, we call it?
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ethnographic analogy
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"Cultural progress" hypothesis, which explains origins of agriculture, states that?
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agriculture is superior to hunting and gathering, enough time is needed to gain knowledge about domestication of animals and plants, and motivation is important because with agriculture life is easier and less work is needed
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What is true about folsom and clovis cultures?
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clovis culture is associated with wooly mommoth, and folsom with bison
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Paleoethnobotany means?
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studying plant remains in the archaeological sites
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The oldest civilization int he new world is?
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the olmecs (check though I think it's teotihuacan)
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