Exam 3 Part 6

Question 1

True or false: humans have canine dimorphism

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What are 3 factors included in the diet of humans?

Answer 2

Cooking, fruits, tubers, meat and fish, sharing food

Question 3

What are the benefits of cooking food?

Answer 3

Better digestion, getting rid of bacteria, brings out more nutrients of food

Question 4

The set of learned behaviors and ideas that are characteristic of a particular society or other social group

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

What allows humans to adapt to different environments?

Answer 5

Culture

Question 6

What are some cultural aspects do humans have?

Answer 6

Sharing, language, transmission of language, food production, storage, religion

Question 7

Hunter gatherers social structure is ________

Answer 7

Non-hierarchial and equalitarian

Question 8

How are leaders like for hunter gatherers?

Answer 8

Only situational and not passed on to other generations, don’t have to follow the leader

Question 9

Why is the social structure for hunter gatherers non-hierarchical and equalitarian?

Answer 9

Mobility and unpredictability of resources in environments

Question 10

Practice that acts to ensure social equality

Answer 10

Leveling mechanisms

Question 11

What are some types of leveling mechanisms?

Answer 11

Gambling, mockery, portioning meat by arrows, shaming the meat

Question 12

The study of how behavior allows and animal to adapt to its environment

Answer 12

Behavioral ecology

Question 13

What are the advantages of social groups?

Answer 13

Protection from predators, resource defense, cooperative foraging, care of infants and juveniles

Question 14

What are the disadvantages of social groups?

Answer 14

Food competition, competition for mates, easier for diseases to spread, interference for reproduction (infanticide)

Question 15

What is the dental adaptation for folivores (eat leaves)?

Answer 15

Small incisors, sharp molars, deep jaw, shearing crests

Question 16

What is the dental adaptation for frugivores (eat fruit)?

Answer 16

Broad incisors, low rounded molar cusps, shallow jaw

Question 17

What is the dental adaptation for insectivores?

Answer 17

Pointed incisors, shape molar cusps, shearing crests, shallow jaw

Question 18

Law that states larger animals use less energy per pound than smaller animals

Answer 18

Kleiber’s law

Question 19

The diet quality should be ____ for small animals than large animals

Answer 19

Larger

Question 20

__% of our calories fuels our brain for cognition

Answer 20

25