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Anthropology 110 Lesson #4/ Quiz #2 1. _T_ Reproductive isolation is a good starting point in describing a species, but it doesn’t work all that well when it comes to naming populations from the fossil record. True, page 16 2. __T__Binomial terms are used to scientifically name a species. Write in the blank space one example of a binomial name for any species of your choosing. __________human______________ 3. _T__The question of interbreeding between two “species” is much easier to answer when DNA is available to use for comparative purposes. True, page 17. 4. __T_In biology we can use the concept of a subspecies or “race” to designate different populations of organisms who belong to a single species. True, page 17 5. __F_The level directly above the “species” in a taxonomic hierarchy is the “family.” False, The level directly above the “species” is Genus Homo page 15 6. _F__Derived characteristics are those which have arisen in a lineage after a split from a common ancestor with another species. These characteristics are known as parallels. 7. _T__Darwin found during his five-year voyage around the world on HMS Beagle and his stop over on the Galapagos Islands that the bird populations of finches differed morphologically from island to island. True, page 30 8. _F__The concept of uniformitarianism explained why the tortoises on the different islands of the Galapagos were remarkably like one another. False, Uniformitarianism consists of the theory that the Earth’s crust changes. page 29-30

9. _T__The Human Genome Diversity Project aims at obtaining genetic information from as wide a sampling of worldwide human populations as possible. True, page 21 10. _F__ Religious scripture deals with empirically testable hypotheses about the world and determines truth based on this research. False, religious scripture deals with spiritual and symbolic importance to people, science deals with empirically testable hypotheses about the world and determines truth based on this research. page 23 11. _F__French biologist Jean Lamarck believed that the evolution of life forms was unilinear, that there was only one line of life that lead from very primitive organisms to the most complicated ones that are seen today (such as humans) His colleague Georges Cuvier supported this idea by his studies of the fossil record. False, his colleague Cuvier opposed his theory. page 27 12._T_Perhaps surprising to some, the human fossil record as we know it today demonstrates that for the longest part of our history we lived in small groups, traveled not very far from the place where we were born, and survived by scavenging and gathering food using only a very limited technology. True, page 24 13._F__Two of the most significant problems that Darwin faced with his idea of natural selection had to do with the mechanism by which variation is maintained in a population, and the rate of evolutionary change. False page 37, Darwin had a problem finding a mechanism that explained how variable characteristics originated which could be another way to say evolutionary change but it also says it would lead to differential success in reproduction and formation of new species. Im not sure if this one is true or false

14.__F_ Lyell’s theory of Uniformitarianism was based on the works of two earlier geologists, Nicholas Steno and Jean Lamarck who first introduced many modern principles of geology, including superposition. False page 29, it was Nicholas Steno and James Hutton not Jean Lamarck, 15._T__The scablands of eastern Washington state have been used as an example of catastrophic events that can alter the landscape within the general concept of uniformitarianism. True, page 29 figure 2-6. 16._F__Thomas Malthus discovered that not all individuals in a species who are born reach maturity, and that there is an upper limit to population growth. Populations, it seemed to Malthus, maintain a stable number of individuals over time. False page 27, he observed that human population numbers increase geometrically 17._T__ In his book, The Origin of Species, Darwin showed only one diagram and that was his concept of phylogeny; how lineages of living forms evolved through time. true, page 36 18._T__ The theory of “good sense” of female choice involves the idea that females choose their mates based on male vigor, good health, and territory size, all sensible choices to make. True, page 39 19._T__ In his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , (1872) Charles Darwin argued there were very few continuities between animal and human behavior. A point later taken up by primatologist, Jane Goodall. True, page 41

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20._F__ Ethologist Konrad Lorenz studied animal behavior that deals with species-specific or genetically linked behavior. Such behaviors are never affected by environmental conditions. False page 42, they are affected by environmental conditions

Anth 110 Lesson #4 Quiz #2.docx (1)

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