Anthropology Quiz 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Citing of the book | Anthropology The Human Challenge Thirteenth Edition HAVILAND Prins Walrath Mcbride belmont ca Wadsworth/Cengage 2010 |
| Physical Anthropology | Also known as biological anthropology. The systematic study of humans as biological organisms |
| cultural anthropology | The study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences |
| archaeology | the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures |
| linguistics | the humanistic study of language and literature |
| 4 groups in maine | penobscot passamaquoddy maliseet micmac-mi'kmaq |
| what does mi'kmaq mean? | my ally "kin" |
| Maliseet | micmac meaning slow or bad talkers |
| wolastuq | beautiful river st. john |
| wolastuqiyik | beautiful people of the river |
| wabanaki | people of dawnland northeastern north america speak algonquin dialects |
| other algonquin speakers | innu cree ojibway patoawotamie pequot narragansett mahican blackfeet arapaho |
| What were food foragers | they were small groups, highly mobile, egalitarian, peaceful, elders transmit knowledge in stories, few material possessions, value relationships over wealth, animist-animals are spirits |
| Is evolution progress toward better and better organisms? | ... |
| How is the QWERTY keayboard used as an analogy for an evolutionary process? | It was used to stop jams and to make it more difficult for people to type so quickly. |
| what is bipedalism? | ... |
| why are humans the only bipedal animals? | ardipithecus ramidus- ardi 4.4 MYR Ausrtalopithecines-genus of bipedal hominids that lived in africa from 4.2-1.4 MYR |
| what advantages and disadvantages come with bipedal locomotions? | 6myr |
| 6 great apes? | Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, gibbons, siamangs, orangutans. |
| which are old world which are new world? | ... |
| lemurs lorises pottos tarsiers tree shrews | ... |
| What is sexual dimorphism? | ... |
| binocular/stereoscopic vision? | overlapping fields of vision, with both sides of the brain receiving images from both eyes, thereby providing depth perception |
| opposable thumb | thumb that enables grasping objects and using tools |
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