Anthropologists take a broad approach to understanding the many different aspects of the human experience. They consider the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them. Take his first quiz set and see how much you know about the topic so far.
Physiological differences
Chromosomal differences
Genotypic differences
Sexual dimorphism
12 months
18 months
24 months
30 months
87
75
67
92
Had a great deal of say over who the group's leaders are
Participated alongside the men as warriors in battle.
Had little say over how the goods they produced were distributed
Lived in their husbands home
Engaged in intercourse with another male
Ate the flesh of an uncastrated pig
Did not marry
Did not engage in premarital sex
Greater sociability in girls
Greater nurturance in boys
Greater responsibility in boys
Greater aggressiveness in boys
About 15
About 75
About 45
About 25
Price
Service
Exchange
Treasure
Kindred
Moiety
Lineage
Clan
Where there are most males than females in the society
In societies with a high proportion of monogamous marriages
Where people depend on crops that are low in protein
In egalitrin societies
With more women than men
With a long post partum sex taboo
Suffering from a high male mortality rate in warfare
With a balanced sex ratios
As capricious
Based on scientific knowledge
As supernatural
By the intervention of the gods
Things containing taboo can be touched
Things containing taboo cannot be touched
Taboo is an evil hideous force quite able to destroy all people who touch it
Taboo is a premeditated form of evil
The selective use of scripture to inspire and assert proof of particular certainties.
The quest for purity and traditional values in what is viewed as an impure world
The active opposition to what is viewed as a permissive secular society
A nation state that combines religion and the state
A supernatural force residing in some people and objects
Polluting and dangerous qualities that reside in certain activities such as menstruation
The souls of livings things as they are exhibited in dreams trances and apparitions of the dead
Food given by gods to humans
Where many people live to an extremely old ago
Where mortality rates are high
With a pastoral or food collecting economy and nuclear family households
Where descent groups are important decision making groups
Societies with external war
Societies with hunting and gathering technologies
Societies with punitive or hurtful child rearing practices
Societies with nuclear family households
Are associated with different clans and are ranked like clans
Have little to do with human actions
Are not thought to be permanent but may die and be born again just like the clans
Are all considered of equal power
Biodiversity and heritability
Natural selection
Particular environment
Differential reproductive success
Only about one half hour
Only about three and a half hours
Only about two and a half hours
Only about one and a half hours
Species
Rocks
Geochemistry
Uniformitarianism
DNA
Thymine
Uracil
RNA
Homozygous
Heterozygous
An allele
A genotype
Macroevolution
Sociobiology
Crossing over
Hybridization
Agrarian
Terrestrial
Arboreal
Pastoral
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