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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A has body proportions that are not well adapted to warmer climates.
B represents the variability that results from Wolff’s law of skeletal replacement.
C is well adapted for life at high latitudes, as Allen’s rule predicts for pastoralist
populations.
populations.
D is on the continuum of variation observed in Allen’s rule.
Question #2
A is continuous variation that follows a continuum.
B is variation that falls into discrete categories.
C describes the pattern of occurrence of trisomy 18.
D was used to describe human variation as early as the Renaissance.
Question #3
A involves using material culture to make living possible in certain settings.
B occurs at the population level via natural selection.
C occurs at the individual level throughout an individual’s lifetime.
D occurs at the individual level during childhood.
Question #4
A experimentally manipulating or replicating environmental conditions and
observing human responses.
observing human responses.
B observing living populations as they engage in various activities in various
settings.
settings.
C observing differences in such measures as body temperature across human
groups.
groups.
D identifying the genome of a given population of humans.
Question #5
A has been present throughout human history.
B can be traced to the Renaissance, when seafaring travelers observed
differences between people from distant lands.
differences between people from distant lands.
C originated in ancient Egypt.
D was first used by Marco Polo as he recorded huge amounts of information
during his travels in Asia.
during his travels in Asia.
Question #6
A showed that U.S.-born children had the same head shapes as their immigrant
parents.
parents.
B created racial categories based on living populations in the United States.
C showed that U.S.-born children had different head shapes than their immigrant
parents.
parents.
D was a strong supporter of the race concept.
Question #7
A Australia.
B Africa.
C South America.
D Europe.
Question #8
A the increased ability to produce and consume inexpensive, high-fat foods.
B a combination of lower calories and more exercise.
C the production of high-calorie, low-fat foods even though people still have a
high exercise level.
high exercise level.
D a lack of physical exercise.
Question #9
A runs from the second month after birth to the end of lactation, usually by the
end of the third year.
end of the third year.
B includes three months before birth and three months after birth.
C runs from three to seven years, generally postweaning.
D is also called the “neonatal” period.
