ASB 222: Module 2 Exam Questions with Correct Answers
Question 1:
Paleonthropology
Answer:
The study of human origins.
Question 2:
Physical Anthropology
Answer:
Study the skeletal remains of ancient humans.
Question 3:
Evolutionary genetics
Answer:
studies the origins of and genetic relationships among organisms and the evolution of genes
and genomes
Question 4:
Adaptation
Answer:
Anatomical or behavioral or cultural adjustment to environmental conditions
Question 5:
Adaptive system
Answer:
Complex of related sets of adaptations
Question 6:
Biological adaptations selection
costs: can exert constraints and is slow to change
Answer:
, Anatomy & physiology
Question 7:
benefits: can provide a raw material advantage shaped by millions of years of natural
Transmission: genetic Behavioral adaptation
potential prey item to flee), mate choice, etc.
can be constrained by biological adaptationsgenerally more flexible than biological
adaptationscosts: innovations easily lost
Answer:
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates atransmission: observation, teaching or
genetic but with most animals mostly geneticcan be constrained by biological
adaptationsgenerally more flexible than biological adaptationscosts: innovations easily lost
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates atransmission: observation, teaching or
genetic but with most animals mostly genetic
can be constrained by biological adaptations
generally more flexible than biological adaptations
costs: innovations easily lost
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates a
transmission: observation, teaching or genetic but with most animals mostly genetic
can be constrained by biological adaptations
generally more flexible than biological adaptations
costs: innovations easily lost
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates a
transmission: observation, teaching or genetic but with most animals mostly genetic
Question 8:
Cultural adaptationalways learned and passed on inter-generationallytypically taught through
use of symbolic referencesoften cumulative in complexity
Answer:
built on top of behavioral adaptationsTransmission: mostly imitation and teaching through
language
Question 9:
Complex Cognition
Answer:
study of how organisms pay attention to, acquire, transform, store, and retrieve knowledge
Question 1:
Paleonthropology
Answer:
The study of human origins.
Question 2:
Physical Anthropology
Answer:
Study the skeletal remains of ancient humans.
Question 3:
Evolutionary genetics
Answer:
studies the origins of and genetic relationships among organisms and the evolution of genes
and genomes
Question 4:
Adaptation
Answer:
Anatomical or behavioral or cultural adjustment to environmental conditions
Question 5:
Adaptive system
Answer:
Complex of related sets of adaptations
Question 6:
Biological adaptations selection
costs: can exert constraints and is slow to change
Answer:
, Anatomy & physiology
Question 7:
benefits: can provide a raw material advantage shaped by millions of years of natural
Transmission: genetic Behavioral adaptation
potential prey item to flee), mate choice, etc.
can be constrained by biological adaptationsgenerally more flexible than biological
adaptationscosts: innovations easily lost
Answer:
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates atransmission: observation, teaching or
genetic but with most animals mostly geneticcan be constrained by biological
adaptationsgenerally more flexible than biological adaptationscosts: innovations easily lost
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates atransmission: observation, teaching or
genetic but with most animals mostly genetic
can be constrained by biological adaptations
generally more flexible than biological adaptations
costs: innovations easily lost
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates a
transmission: observation, teaching or genetic but with most animals mostly genetic
can be constrained by biological adaptations
generally more flexible than biological adaptations
costs: innovations easily lost
flight distance (at which distance a predator stimulates a
transmission: observation, teaching or genetic but with most animals mostly genetic
Question 8:
Cultural adaptationalways learned and passed on inter-generationallytypically taught through
use of symbolic referencesoften cumulative in complexity
Answer:
built on top of behavioral adaptationsTransmission: mostly imitation and teaching through
language
Question 9:
Complex Cognition
Answer:
study of how organisms pay attention to, acquire, transform, store, and retrieve knowledge
