ANTHROPOLOGY 275 MIDTERM EXAM

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What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective?" - ANSWER To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human cultures and biology A "culture bond" theory is - ANSWER a theory... based on assumptions common to a particular culture rather than deriving from comparisons of many different cultures Cross-cultural research that allows anthropologists to explain why differences or similarities occur between groups is known as - ANSWER ethnology Cultural anthropology is the study of patterns of human behavior. These standards - ANSWER focus on humans as culture producing and re-producing creatures In-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures are called - ANSWER ethnographies What is the primary purpose of practicing applied anthropology? - ANSWER It allows the use of anthropological knowledge to solve practical problems The Garage Project in Tuscon demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically. For instance, investigators found that - ANSWER the amount of beer consumed, according to empty cans in the trash, was far higher than people claimed. As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch behavior of monkeys and apes, or dig for early hominid bones in East Africa. You are a/an: - ANSWER physical anthropologist A position that is a closely examined and critically checked explanation of observed reality is a(n) - ANSWER theory What is "transplant tourism?" - ANSWER travel connected with the buying and selling of human organs How do scientific accounts and creation stories differ from each other? - ANSWER Scientific accounts focus on testable ideas, and creation stories do not The smallest working units in biological classificatory systems that are reproductively isolated populations or groups of populations capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring are called - ANSWER species Which scientist proposed that an organisms behavior could bring about changes in its anatomy? This was called inheritance acquired characteristics. - ANSWER Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Gregor Mendel's law of independent assortment argues that - ANSWER different genetic traits are inherited as separate qualities (they are not dependent on each other) [Show More]

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