Deck 1: Race and Biological Diversity in Humans

Question 1

Among those anthropologists who accept the biological existence of race there is agreement that

A) skin color is a good marker of biological race.
B) The ABO blood group should be used in classifying races.
C) races can be identified by their geographical area.
D) any or all of these

Answer 1

any or all of these

Question 2

Polymorphic variation is

A) biological differences between human populations.
B) biological differences within a population.
C) biological differences between the right and left side of a body.
D) biological differences resulting from emigration.

Answer 2

biological differences within a population.

Question 3

Polytypic variation refers to

A) biological variation within a population
B) biological variation that is not used to classify people
C) biological variation that is not associated with geography
D) biological variation between populations

Answer 3

biological variation between populations

Question 4

A classification using two traits such as skin color and the ABO blood group will result in a finding that the two traits

A) lack the same world-wide distribution.
B) prove the existence of races because they vary together.
C) have the same geographic distribution.
D) are not polytypic.

Question 5

In Brazil

A) no person can change their racial category, one is black or white
B) there are only people with dark skin and no racial categories
C) skin color is highly variable and can change as a person acquires money.
D) the racial category of a person is not effected by socioeconomic status.

Question 6

The biocultural approach to the study of human biological diversity

A) combines the biological and cultural aspects of the race concept.
B) is less useful in explaining human biological diversity than old-fashion typologies.
C) uses culture to override biology to explain human biological diversity.
D) shows that racial traits are static rather than dynamic adaptations.

Question 7

Anthropologists have

A) found that there are about 5 different human races.
B) argued that there are only 3 different human races.
C) found that there are about 50 different human races.
D) been unable to agree on the number of human races because of the nature of human biological diversity.

Question 8

Among those anthropologists who accept the biological validity of race, there is agreement on the number of human races.

Question 9

Before 1950 there were no biological anthropologists who questioned the biological existence of race.

Question 10

One problem when discussing race is that there is often confusion between race and cultural differences.

Question 11

Homo sapiens is a polymorphic and polytypic species.

Question 12

Skin color is not an either/or trait but varies continuously both within and between populations.

Question 13

Beginning in the 1940s _________ was an anthropologist who argued that there is no biological support for racial classifications of humans.

Question 14

A ________ shows that people with dark skin absorb more light that people with light skin.

Question 15

A normal distribution is also called a ________

Question 16

Most biological diversity among humans is the result of the action of ___________

Question 17

Lacking biological support for the notion of human races, race is a ________ construction.