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ASM 246 Midterm Arizona State University - Question and answers verified to passASM 246 Midterm Anthropology - correct answer Which of the following can be defined as: "The study of the whole of the human condition; past present and future; biology, science, language and culture." Surveying - correct answer Which of the following describes the paleoanthropology practice of walking the landscape looking for fossils on the surface? False - correct answer Humans evolved from chimpanzee...

ASM246 Quizzes 1 to 3 Arizona State University - Question and answers 100% correct ASM246 Quizzes 1 to 3 Which of the following can be defined as: "The Study of the whole of the human condition; past, present and future; biology, science, language and culture." - correct answer anthropology Which of the following describes the paleoanthropology practice of walking the landscape looking for fossils on the surface? - correct answer surveying T or F: Humans evolved from chimpanzees -...

Anthropology 101 Exam Questions and Answers All Correct Ethnography is: - Answer-the firsthand, personal study of local settings. How are cultural rights different from human rights? - Answer-Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals. What are the four main subdisciplines of anthropology? - Answer-Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology Current evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of hominins and the African ap...

ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 3 WVU QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS. What makes us human? - answerBipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism - answerstresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls - answerEarly hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency - answerCompared with the young o...

AFST 235 Final Exam Actual Questions and Answers Graded A+ The origins of humanity lie in which of the following continents? -South America - Asia - North America - Africa - answerAfrica Where were the first fossils discovered (1856) - paving the way for the greater search for the "missing link" - East Africa - Java - Germany - Southern Africa - answerGermany Which of the following early humans were the first to make simple stone tools? - Australopithecus - Homo erectus - Homo ...

potential cannibalism - ️️Cutmarks found on fossilized hominin bones from the middle Pleistocene of Bodo, Ethiopia are often used as evidence of what? relatively small cranial capacity compared to other Homo species. - ️️One of the most surprising discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology is the species Homo floresiensis. This species is characterized by what? True - ️️True or false? Neandertals took care of the old and disabled. Homo erectus - ️️Sinanthropus pekinen...

What is evolution? - Answer-How organisms change across many generations. Which is the oldest of these four species? - Answer-Australopithecines What characteristic did early hominins share with modern humans? - Answer-Bipedalism Why was having a larger brain advantageous for early hominins? - Answer-It increased intelligence helped them hunt and survive. According to the theory of evolution, which of the following statements is true? - Answer-Humans and chimps evolved from a common ancest...

culture - Answer is acquired and learned, that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom and, habits acquired by man as members of society enculturation - Answer process by which a child learns his or her culture hominid - Answer any fossil or living human, chimp and gorilla hominins - Answer all human species that ever existed

Anthropology 101 Ethnography is: - correct answer the firsthand, personal study of local settings. How are cultural rights different from human rights? - correct answer Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals. What are the four main subdisciplines of anthropology? - correct answer Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology Current evidence suggests that the last common ancestor of hominins and the African apes existed - cor...

Final Exam AFST 235 Actual Questions with Correct Answers Grade A+ The origins of humanity lie in which of the following continents? -South America - Asia - North America - Africa Africa Where were the first fossils discovered (1856) - paving the way for the greater search for the "missing link" - East Africa - Java - Germany - Southern Africa Germany Which of the following early humans were the first to make simple stone tools? - Australopithecus - Homo erectus - Hom...