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25 Cards in this Set
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Modern humans have misaligned teeth because of
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All of these are correct |
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Domesticated C3 plants include all of the following EXCEPT
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corn
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Plant domestication brought with it the invention of
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alcohol
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One of the advantages of the invention of agriculture for human adaptation is
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the ability to feed a larger number of people
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Disadvantages of the invention of agriculture for human adaptation include
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an increase in interpersonal violence
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Modern human evolution has been marked by a(n) ______________ in the size of the face and jaw and a(n) ______________ in cultural complexity
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decrease; increase |
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You find a cache of skeletons from an agricultural site in the United States. What would you expect to see in the cross section of the femur
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More information about the geographic location of the site would be helpful because different kinds of food production can lead to either an increase or a decrease in the size
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Which of these locations is most likely to have people suffering from a variety of infectious diseases
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closely packed slums
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Diseases that continue to plague modern humans because of overcrowding include all of the following EXCEPT
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caries
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An increase in dental caries in North America came about because of the increase in consumption of
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corn
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Compared to hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists have higher rates of
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All of these are correct.
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With all the disadvantages to farming, why did humans continue to do so?
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It allowed women to bear more children.
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Iron-deficiency anemia can result from
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Both (a) and (b) are correct.
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The treponematoses are a category of disease that include
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syphilis
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The shift from foraging to farming is associated with the time period called the
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Neolithic
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You are interested in tracking the spread of maize agriculture throughout the eastern United States, so your professor suggests that you might want to study human skeletons and look into
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All of these are correct.
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Your mother points out to you a magazine article that says that better nutrition is the reason modern Americans are taller than Americans of two centuries ago. You tell her that
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while this is true, other factors such as a reduction in infectious diseases also contribute to the increase in height.
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In a biology class, your friend had to read Jared Diamond’s essay The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, which details the drawbacks of sedentary life and agriculture. Your friend wants to know why humans continued to farm in the face of disease and other issues. You reply that
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having reliable access to food and being able to produce more calories per unit of land available led to population increase.
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Many of the bones from the prehistoric Cowboy Wash site in Colorado show evidence of cannibalism. Dr. Larsen suggests that environmental stresses may have led to a reduction in agricultural yields, causing a surge in interpersonal conflict over land. This is certainly not the only explanation for cannibalism, however, because
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evidence of cannibalism is found long before the advent of agriculture.
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While reading an article for your archaeology class, you come across a section in which the author lays out a claim for the dolichocephalic Mesolithic foragers being replaced by the brachycephalic agriculturalists in Nubia. This claim that "short-headed" people came in and replaced all the "long-headed" people is likely false because
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craniofacial changes can be attributed to long-term changes in diet rather than to wholesale population replacement.
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The defects shown in these teeth are called ________________, which tell anthropologists that the individual underwent stress episodes, likely caused by nutritional deficiencies or diseases.
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hypoplasias
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According to this chart, domestication
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occurred earlier in Asia than in Africa.
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These lumbar vertebrae illustrate _____________, a common problem resulting from physically demanding activity.
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osteoarthritis
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While washing bones at your internship in the physical anthropology lab, you come across these vertebrae. In your notes, you write that
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All of these are correct.
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Given this cranium of an adolescent, you might suggest that the cause of death was
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an untreated parasitic infection.
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