Physical Anthropology Midterm (FUS
Fitzgibbons)
4 major subfields of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔1. Cultural Anthropology
2. Linguistics
3. Physical Anthropology/Biological Anthropology
4. Archaeology
specialty areas in physical anthropology - correct answer ✔✔paleo-anthropology (human evolution)
human variation (population genetics)
primatology (chimpanzee communication)
osteology (paleopathology: study of disease/bone trauma; forensic anthropology: human identification)
biocultural approach - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of the interrelationship between what
humans have inherited genetically and culture
Hominid - correct answer ✔✔A member of a biological group including human beings and related
species that walk upright
bipedalism - correct answer ✔✔the ability to walk upright on two legs
Species - correct answer ✔✔a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of
exchanging genes or interbreeding.
primate - correct answer ✔✔monkeys, apes, and humans
Culture - correct answer ✔✔the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a
group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
, microevolution - correct answer ✔✔-intraspecific evolution
-changes in a species
Macroevolution - correct answer ✔✔-interspecific evolution
- changes into a new species
Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce
Artifacts - correct answer ✔✔object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
anthropological perspective - correct answer ✔✔an approach to the human condition that is holistic,
comparative, and evolutionary
criteria of scholarly research - correct answer ✔✔scholarship & science
1. insight
2. mastery of subject
3.evidence
4. logic
Synchronic Studies - correct answer ✔✔1. observation/experimentation
2. replication
3. generalization
4. prediction
Diachronic Studies - correct answer ✔✔1. inference
2. explanation
Science is empirical - correct answer ✔✔1. Collection of data - introduction & deduction
2. developing a hypo
Fitzgibbons)
4 major subfields of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔1. Cultural Anthropology
2. Linguistics
3. Physical Anthropology/Biological Anthropology
4. Archaeology
specialty areas in physical anthropology - correct answer ✔✔paleo-anthropology (human evolution)
human variation (population genetics)
primatology (chimpanzee communication)
osteology (paleopathology: study of disease/bone trauma; forensic anthropology: human identification)
biocultural approach - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of the interrelationship between what
humans have inherited genetically and culture
Hominid - correct answer ✔✔A member of a biological group including human beings and related
species that walk upright
bipedalism - correct answer ✔✔the ability to walk upright on two legs
Species - correct answer ✔✔a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of
exchanging genes or interbreeding.
primate - correct answer ✔✔monkeys, apes, and humans
Culture - correct answer ✔✔the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a
group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
, microevolution - correct answer ✔✔-intraspecific evolution
-changes in a species
Macroevolution - correct answer ✔✔-interspecific evolution
- changes into a new species
Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce
Artifacts - correct answer ✔✔object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
anthropological perspective - correct answer ✔✔an approach to the human condition that is holistic,
comparative, and evolutionary
criteria of scholarly research - correct answer ✔✔scholarship & science
1. insight
2. mastery of subject
3.evidence
4. logic
Synchronic Studies - correct answer ✔✔1. observation/experimentation
2. replication
3. generalization
4. prediction
Diachronic Studies - correct answer ✔✔1. inference
2. explanation
Science is empirical - correct answer ✔✔1. Collection of data - introduction & deduction
2. developing a hypo
