ANTH 1210 MIDTERM #2 questions
correctly answered to pass
Define race - correct answer ✔✔A cultural concept with no biological basis
Describe the Oldtown Tool Industry - correct answer ✔✔- First stone tool industry
(2.6 -1.7 mya)
- Butcher meat
- Process plant material
- A sign of culture
What is the % of genetic variation due
to individual differences within
populations? - correct answer ✔✔93 - 95%
What is a feature of Paranthropoids? - correct answer ✔✔Large face and strong
jaw muscles
Paranthropus aethiopicus - correct answer ✔✔2.7-2.3 mya
What is the % of genetic variation is due to
differences between populations? - correct answer ✔✔3 - 5%
,Describe Bergmann's rule - correct answer ✔✔Smaller-sized subpopulations of a
species inhabit the warmer parts of its geographical range and larger-sized
subpopulations the cooler area
Describe Allen's rule - correct answer ✔✔The protruding body parts (arms and
legs) are relatively shorter in the cooler area of a species range than in the
warmer areas
Describe Gloger's rule - correct answer ✔✔Populations of birds and mammals
living in warm, humid climates have more melanin (darker skin) than populations
of the same species living in cooler drier area
Define Primatology - correct answer ✔✔The primarily non-human primates.
Define Primatologist - correct answer ✔✔Human primate, who studies nonhuman
primate
What are four main categories of Primatology? - correct answer ✔✔-
Classification
- Anatomy
- Behavior
- Ecology
Describe primate characteristics - correct answer ✔✔- Grasping hands and feet
- Forward facing eyes surrounded by a boney orbital (stereoscopic vision)
- Relatively larger brain
- Reduction in sense of smell, and expansion of primary visual area
,- Rotating forearm
- Long maturation of the young
- High degree of dependence on social life and learning
Define Directional Selection - correct answer ✔✔When individuals at one end of
the curve have higher fitness than individuals in the middle or at the other end
Define Normal (Stabilizing) Selection - correct answer ✔✔Favors intermediate
variants and acts against extreme phenotypes
Define Balancing Selection - correct answer ✔✔When the heterozygotes (Sickle
cell trait) are deemed as having higher fitness than the homozygotes (Healthy)
and so a higher than normal proportion of heterozygotes is seen (Example: sickle
cell)
What are the two classifications of Primates? - correct answer ✔✔Prosimians &
Anthropoids
What were the earliest primates like? - correct answer ✔✔Prosimian-like animals
What are the seven Primate locomotion types? - correct answer ✔✔- Vertical
Clinging and Leaping
- Slow climbers
- Branch Runner
- Ground-walking and running
- Brachiation
, - Knuckle-walking
- Bipedalism
What locomotion system do Tarsier's use? - correct answer ✔✔Vertical Clinging
and Leaping
What locomotion system do Loris's use? - correct answer ✔✔Slow climbing
What locomotion system do Capuchin's use? - correct answer ✔✔Branch running
What locomotion system do Mandrill's use? - correct answer ✔✔Ground Walking
and Running
What locomotion system do Gibbon's use? - correct answer ✔✔Brachiation
What locomotion system do Gorilla's use? - correct answer ✔✔Knuckle-walking
What locomotion system do Human's use? - correct answer ✔✔Bipedalism
What adaptations allow Humans to move the way they do? - correct answer ✔✔-
Arched foot
- S-curve in spine
- Broad, short pelvis
- Knock kneed
correctly answered to pass
Define race - correct answer ✔✔A cultural concept with no biological basis
Describe the Oldtown Tool Industry - correct answer ✔✔- First stone tool industry
(2.6 -1.7 mya)
- Butcher meat
- Process plant material
- A sign of culture
What is the % of genetic variation due
to individual differences within
populations? - correct answer ✔✔93 - 95%
What is a feature of Paranthropoids? - correct answer ✔✔Large face and strong
jaw muscles
Paranthropus aethiopicus - correct answer ✔✔2.7-2.3 mya
What is the % of genetic variation is due to
differences between populations? - correct answer ✔✔3 - 5%
,Describe Bergmann's rule - correct answer ✔✔Smaller-sized subpopulations of a
species inhabit the warmer parts of its geographical range and larger-sized
subpopulations the cooler area
Describe Allen's rule - correct answer ✔✔The protruding body parts (arms and
legs) are relatively shorter in the cooler area of a species range than in the
warmer areas
Describe Gloger's rule - correct answer ✔✔Populations of birds and mammals
living in warm, humid climates have more melanin (darker skin) than populations
of the same species living in cooler drier area
Define Primatology - correct answer ✔✔The primarily non-human primates.
Define Primatologist - correct answer ✔✔Human primate, who studies nonhuman
primate
What are four main categories of Primatology? - correct answer ✔✔-
Classification
- Anatomy
- Behavior
- Ecology
Describe primate characteristics - correct answer ✔✔- Grasping hands and feet
- Forward facing eyes surrounded by a boney orbital (stereoscopic vision)
- Relatively larger brain
- Reduction in sense of smell, and expansion of primary visual area
,- Rotating forearm
- Long maturation of the young
- High degree of dependence on social life and learning
Define Directional Selection - correct answer ✔✔When individuals at one end of
the curve have higher fitness than individuals in the middle or at the other end
Define Normal (Stabilizing) Selection - correct answer ✔✔Favors intermediate
variants and acts against extreme phenotypes
Define Balancing Selection - correct answer ✔✔When the heterozygotes (Sickle
cell trait) are deemed as having higher fitness than the homozygotes (Healthy)
and so a higher than normal proportion of heterozygotes is seen (Example: sickle
cell)
What are the two classifications of Primates? - correct answer ✔✔Prosimians &
Anthropoids
What were the earliest primates like? - correct answer ✔✔Prosimian-like animals
What are the seven Primate locomotion types? - correct answer ✔✔- Vertical
Clinging and Leaping
- Slow climbers
- Branch Runner
- Ground-walking and running
- Brachiation
, - Knuckle-walking
- Bipedalism
What locomotion system do Tarsier's use? - correct answer ✔✔Vertical Clinging
and Leaping
What locomotion system do Loris's use? - correct answer ✔✔Slow climbing
What locomotion system do Capuchin's use? - correct answer ✔✔Branch running
What locomotion system do Mandrill's use? - correct answer ✔✔Ground Walking
and Running
What locomotion system do Gibbon's use? - correct answer ✔✔Brachiation
What locomotion system do Gorilla's use? - correct answer ✔✔Knuckle-walking
What locomotion system do Human's use? - correct answer ✔✔Bipedalism
What adaptations allow Humans to move the way they do? - correct answer ✔✔-
Arched foot
- S-curve in spine
- Broad, short pelvis
- Knock kneed
