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The history of the study of human variation is divided into 3 phases; they inlude the Greco- Roman period, the 18th and 19th centuries and...
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The renaissance
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Individuals, like Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Homer, credited with recognizing human variation, in the biological and cultural sense, came from which of the "phases" of human variation study?
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The Greco Roman
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The naturalistic approach, like that used by Leonardo Da Vinci to understanding human differences was during which phase of human variation study?
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The Renaissance
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A scheme for understanding the order of things in nature, including the placement of humans below the angels and God, but above animals. the plants, and minerals is traditionally known as...
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The great chain of being
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The first person to create a taxonomy of living creatures and placement of humans in the Order primates was...
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Carolus Linnaeus
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The individual that believed physical traits could be acquired within a lifetime and passed on to their offspring, also known as the theory of acquired characteristics, was....
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Jean Baptiste La Marack
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The first individual who suggested changes in an organism over time create the differences we observe, and called it natural selection...
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Charles Darwin
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The phrase "Survival of the fittest", used by Darwin in his writings, was actually borrowed from....
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None of these
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Organisms that are K-selected give birth
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To one or more offspring at a time
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Organisms that are R-selected give birth
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To many offspring at a time
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Defining primate adaptations/ traits include all of the following except
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Altruistic offspring
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Defining primate adaptations/ traits include all of the following except
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Hairlessness
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The four great apes are
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Orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorrilas
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The closest genetic "Cousin" of the human species is the chimpanzee and the
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Bonobo
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Anthropometry is the study of
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Body measurements
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