Exploring Biological Anthropology The Essentials, Stanford - Complete test bank - exam questions - quizzes (updated 2022)

Chapter 1: What is Biological Anthropology?



In this revision of the testbank, all of the questions have been updated to reflect
changes in Exploring Biological Anthropology, 3e. There is also a new system for
identifying the difficulty of the questions. In this revision, the questions are now
tagged according to the four levels of learning that help organize the text. Think of
these four levels as moving from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The
four levels are:



REMEMBER: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material

UNDERSTAND: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas

APPLY: a question applying anthropological knowledge to some new situation

ANALYZE: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their
interrelationship




Types of Questions

Easy to Difficult Level of Difficulty

Multiple Choice Essay Total Questions

Remember 27 0 27

Understand 28 0 28

Apply 5 3 8

Analyze 0 3 3

60 6 66

,1. Biological anthropologists employ a unifying set of biological principles to discuss how
our species came to be the way it is today. This set of principles is known as __________.



a. biological anthropology
b. forensics
c. ethnography
d. evolution



(REMEMBER; Answer d; page 4)




2. According to biological anthropology, humans are primates and are the products of
millions of years of evolution by natural selection.


a. True
b. False



(UNDERSTAND; Answer a; page 4)



3. From the perspective of biological theory, humans are ___________.


 a. not like all other biological species
 b. unrelated to primates
 c. the product of the same long process of adaptation as all other biological
species

, d. much like all other biological species, but did not result from evolutionary
processes



(UNERSTAND; Answer c; page 4)



4. A hominin is __________.



 a. an ape-like primate that walks on two legs
 b. a non-human animal
 c. an example of a “paradigm”
 d. none of these



(REMEMBER; Answer a; page 4)



5. The pace of discovery of new fossil hominins has accelerated. The text states that this
may be attributed to ___________.



 a. regional political changes
 b. the better training excavators are receiving
 c. better pay for paleoanthropologists
 d. all of these



(UNDERSTAND; Answer a; page 6)



6. Regional political changes and an increased number of researchers are the main reasons
for the recent increase in paleoanthropological discoveries.



 a. True
 b. False

, (REMEMBER; Answer a; page 6)




7. The study of the skeleton is known as __________.


 a. Forensic anthropology
 b. Biocultural anthropology
 c. Molecular anthropology
 d. Osteology



(REMEMBER; Answer d; page 6)



8. Which of the following typifies the work of an osteologist?


 a. a scientist who studies the relationship of culture, medicine, and evolution
 b. a researcher livening amongst Lowland Gorillas
 c. a scientist piecing together tiny fragments of a skeleton
 d. a scientist researching the cultures of living peoples



(UNDERSTAND; Answer c; page 7)



9. __________ may use their expertise in human variation in body form to help ascertain the
ethnic affinities of skeletons.


 a. Osteologists
 b. Nutritional anthropologists
 c. Molecular anthropologists
 d. Archaeologists



(REMEMBER; Answer a; page 7)