ANTH Physical and Biological Anthropology 2

Question 1

Which primate trait is a shared feature that distinguishes primates from most other mammals?

Accepted Answer

Grasping hands with opposable thumbs

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Loss of all body hair

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Bipedal locomotion

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Absence of a tail in all species

Question 2

The study of human skeletal remains to determine identity, cause of death, and time since death is called what?

Accepted Answer

Forensic anthropology

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Linguistic anthropology

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Ethnography

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Primatology

Question 3

Which hominin species is credited with the earliest widespread use of controlled fire?

Accepted Answer

Homo erectus

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Australopithecus afarensis

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Paranthropus boisei

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Homo floresiensis

Question 4

The condition in which an allele frequency changes randomly in a small population is known as what?

Accepted Answer

Genetic drift

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Directional selection

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Gene flow

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Balanced polymorphism

Question 5

Which foramen magnum position best indicates habitual bipedalism in a fossil skull?

Accepted Answer

Positioned toward the center/base of the skull

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Positioned at the rear of the skull

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Absent entirely

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Positioned on the side of the skull

Question 6

What is the primary function of the enlarged brow ridges and sagittal crest seen in some early hominins?

Accepted Answer

Anchoring large chewing muscles

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Improving vision at night

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Regulating brain temperature

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Supporting upright walking

Question 7

The persistence of lactase enzyme production into adulthood is an example of what evolutionary process?

Accepted Answer

Recent human adaptation to dairy diets

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Random mutation with no effect

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Genetic drift only

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Reversal to an ancestral trait