Chapter 13

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A round cross section of a long bone suggests that the bone will:
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have equal strength in all directions.
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During your lab you are asked to identify the pathological feature of spongy bone invading the eye socket that occurs in the interior upper surface of the eye sockets; you diagnose the condition as:
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cribra orbitalia, resulting from iron-deficiency anemia or parasitic infection.
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Based on the archaeological record from various areas, the initial effect of agriculture on height was that height:
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decreased.
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Hunter-gatherers' skeletons tend to show:
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higher levels of activity.
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A symptom of anemia where spongy bone invades the eye sockets is called:
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cribra orbitalia.
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Domestication produced more food per unit area of land than had hunting and gathering, meaning:
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more people could be fed from the same amount of land.
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The masticatory-functional hypothesis states that:
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change in skull form represents a response to decreased demands on the chewing muscles.
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The human population increase of the Holocene was probably due to:
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decreased birth spacing.
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As towns and cities began to compete for increasingly limited resources:
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organized warfare developed.
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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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The shift from foraging to farming is associated with the time period called the
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Neolithic.
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Agriculture resulted in:
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population sedentism and crowding.
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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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One of the most important adaptive transitions in hominin evolution is:
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the shift from foraging to farming.
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Modern humans have misaligned teeth because of
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All of the choices are correct.
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A(n) _______ is a scientist who studies plant remains in the archaeological record.
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paleoethnobotanist
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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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The core of the adaptive success characterized by population explosion was the result of:
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an increased food supply.
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Two-thirds of calorie intake comes from the key cereal grains domesticated in the earlier Holocene, especially:
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wheat, barley, corn, and rice.
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Plant domestication brought with it the invention of
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alcohol.