Anthropological theories in the 21st century are:
a. developed independently of the theories of the earliest anthropologists.
b. merely hypotheses that anthropologists use in the field to help guide them.
c. often built upon what was learned from earlier theories.
d. entirely new concepts due to rapid modernization of the United States.
e. no longer based on the simple ideas of the 18th century theories.
Question 2
A theory is:
a. a basis for further investigation.
b. an unproven proposition.
c. an educated opinion.
d. a statement about how things are related.
e. a hunch about how things are related.
(a) Homologous traits are similar due to shared ancestry. (b) Analogous traits (bats’, birds’, and f
A nineteenth-century Japanese portrait of Commodore Matthew Perry, who “opened up” Japan in 1854.
The Black Death spread over much of Europe in a three-year period in the middle of the fourteenth ce
Medicinal leeches on a patient’s neck. Today leeches are sometimes used in microsurgery to prevent b
The medulla and the midbrain are largely developed at birth
A pedigree for albinism collected in the early years of the twentieth century by Charles Davenport,