ANTH Ch 5

A person in a hot environment having a red face is the result of vasoconstriction

During what part of history did the concept of race begin?

For humans, hair loss and sweating are both thermoregulatory adaptations to heat.

Frank Livingstone, a noted physical anthropologist, is famous for having said about human diversity in appearance, "There are no _________; there are only ___________."

Human adaptation occurs at four levels: genetic, developmental, acclimatization, and cultural.

In general, populations living between 0° and 20°N latitude have the darkest skin color.

One of your classmates moved to the United States from Somalia as a kid in the late 1990s. After seeing a picture of his family, you notice that he and his sister must have been undernourished for several years. What would be a valid reason for arriving at this conclusion?

People who live in the areas of the world highlighted in red on this map have adapted to these particular geographic conditions and are likely to have which physical attribute?

In the 1700s, _____________ developed a scientific classification of race

The disease rickets, which affects bone mineralization, results from a deficiency in which vitamin?

The eruption of the first permanent molar and the completion of brain growth happen during ____________ development.

The growth and development of females is more sensitive to stressors in the environment than is the growth and development of males.

There is an old adage that "a fat baby is a healthy baby." What could be a valid critique of this statement?

These children are suffering from hypoxia.

This figure shows the cross section of upper arm bones. Who might they belong to?

This graph of the growth curves of the brain, body, dentition, and reproductive system indicates that the dentition completes growth before any other system of the body.

What is a gradual change in phenotype over a geographic area called?

Which of the following would be true according to Bergmann's and Allen's rules?

You visit your uncle, a dentist, over winter break. He hands you this X-ray and instructs you to estimate the age of this child, given the eruption time of the permanent molars (6 years old for the first molar, 12 years old for the second, and 18 years old for the third). You reply that the child is in which age range?

Your older sister recently had a baby and is confused about when she should wean her daughter. Based on what you learned in physical anthropology class about the timing and characteristics of life history stages in humans, what do you tell her?