Chapter one: What is Biological Anthropology

Question 1

What discipline is understood through the framework of evolution and focuses on evolution-and the intersection of biology and culture?

Answer 1

Biological Anthropology

Question 2

What branch of anthropology studies how cultures are created, preserved, and changed over time and across different social contexts?

Answer 2

Ethnology

Question 3

What are concepts of evolutionary history?

Answer 3

Individuals are products of genetics and environment: Biology allowed for culture and culture affects our biology

Question 4

What is drives adaption?

Answer 4

Adaptation is driven by natural selection, where advantageous traits are more likely to be passed on to future generations

Question 5

Study of non-human primates and their genetics, behavior

Answer 5

Primatology

Question 6

Who studies study genetics, growth and development and environmental extremes?

Answer 6

Human biology anthropologists

Question 7

Study of fossil record and primate kin.

Answer 7

Paleoanthropology:

Question 8

A Western-based scientific framework-empirical, repeatable, self-correcting process, with a variety of steps to answer questions based on data and observations. (Diagram above) It is

Answer 8

Scientific method

Question 9

What is a key is a key element of a hypothesis?

Answer 9

FALSIFIABILITY

Question 10

What are the requirements for scientific validity?

Answer 10

Must have a testable hypothesis through data collection and analysis, Hypothesis is subject to change or be nullified, theory is well supported, can be proven false-disproven though empirical evidence

Question 11

A person who specializes in the study and measurement of the human body’s proportions.

Answer 11

Anthropometrist

Question 12

A subfield of biological anthropology, which is the study of the biological and behavioral aspects of humans and related primates

Answer 12

Biomedical anthropology

Question 13

Studies cultures in far-flung places, and they also study subcultures in our own society.

Answer 13

Anthropologists

Question 14

Biological anthropology is understood through the framework of

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evolution

Question 15

the principle by which biological anthropologists understand the place of humans in the natural world.

Answer 15

Evolution by natural selection

Question 16

what basic questions does biological anthropology seek to answer?

Answer 16

What does it mean to be human? How did we become who we are today? How does our biological past influence our lives in the environments of the present? What is the place of human beings in nature?

Question 17

It has been continuously supported and never disproven.

Answer 17

theory of evolution

Question 18

Study of non-human primates and their genetics, behavior

Answer 18

Primatology

Question 19

Study of fossil record and primate kin

Answer 19

Paleoanthropology

Question 20

Biological Anthropology includes which four sub-disciplines

Answer 20

Biological
Cultural
Linguistic
Archaeology