Midterm Exam 2

A  Most traits are not bounded by supposed “racial” boundaries but rather vary between two points.

B  The term clinal variation is another term for race or subspecies.

C  The cline is the scale against which variation is measured, from which we can derive the number of distinct races in a region.

D  Most genetic traits sort people into a fixed number of race categories. Clines do not sort people this way but are rare.

A  use of material culture to make living possible in certain settings.

B  study of populations in their natural environments.

C  replication of environmental conditions and human responses to those conditions.

D  functioning of all levels of any organism’s biology.

A  Eocene primates lacked a postorbital bar.

B  Eocene primates had a decreased reliance on vision.

C  Eocene primates had opposable digits.

D  Eocene primates had a smaller brain.

A  Ancestors crossed the Atlantic from Europe to South America.

B  African ancestors reached South America by using the Bering Strait between Asia and North America.

C  Platyrrhines and catarrhines evolved together from the same lineage in North America.

D  North American ancestors migrated south, evolving into platyrrhines.

A  Oligopithecus.

B  Parapithecus.

C  Aegyptopithecus.

D  Apidium.

A  extinction of many primate species.

B  spread of Sivapithecus.

C  development of Dryopithecus.

D  adaptive radiation of Euprimates.

A  12; 3.6

B  3.4; 2.5

C  4.6; 3.5

D  7; 5.2

A  forensic biology.

B  archaeology.

C  taphonomy.

D  cryptozoology.

A  electron spin resonance dating

B  amino acid dating

C  radiopotassium dating

D  radiocarbon dating

A  flourine dating.

B  radiocarbon dating.

C  radiopotassium dating.

D  dendrochronology.

A  paleontology

B  fossilization

C  taphonomy

D  geology

A  amino acid dating

B  tree ring dating

C  fission-track dating

D  cultural dating

A  decreased competition for mates in a monogamous social structure

B  the fact that sexual dimorphism is not related to social structure in gibbons

C  the polygamous social structure in gibbons

D  unequal access to resources within their environment

A  forming long-term cooperative relationships with multiple females.

B  identifying their own rank, based on age, and waiting until reaching a certain age to approach females.

C  bringing females a courtship gift such as fruit or a small mammal.

D  conducting infanticide and fighting other males for dominance.

A  Greater female rank results in reproduction at an older age.

B  Males compete with each other for mates, affecting their sexual dimorphism.

C  Females often practice infanticide.

D  Males compete with each other for resources for their young.

A  the competition for resources to access females.

B  the physical competition for access to females.

C  selection of males by females on the basis of disposition, physical appearance, and hierarchical position.

D  natural selection in one sex caused by a trait’s attractiveness to members of the opposite sex.

A  one adult female, several adult males, and their offspring.

B  one adult male, several adult females, and their offspring.

C  one adult male, one adult female, and their offspring.

D  several adult males and no adult females.

A  bonding between two members of a social group, calming or appeasing the primate being groomed if he or she has a higher dominance

B  the development of alliances between males

C  bonding between individuals of the same rank, picking through the skin and hair of another individual

D  the development of alliances between females

A  baboons.

B  bushbucks.

C  bushpigs.

D  red colobus monkeys.

A  2/1/3/3

B  2/2/3/3

C  2/2/2/3

D  2/1/2/3

A  lemurs, lorises, galagos, and tarsiers

B  monkeys and apes, including humans

C  African and Asian apes only

D  tarsiers, monkeys, and apes only

A  all of the primates of Madagascar

B  all of the New World primates

C  diurnal and nocturnal galagos

D  all of the African primates

A  an expanded reliance on sense of smell.

B  a precision grip.

C  opposable thumbs.

D  short digits.

A  a wet nose, a snout, a tooth comb, and a grooming claw

B  a wet nose, a snout, downward-facing nostrils, and longer hind limbs than forelimbs

C  a tooth comb, a grooming claw, and a downward facing foramen magnum

D  a snout, downward-facing nostrils, and longer forelimbs than hind limbs