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Anthropology 301 Self-Paced
Lab 1: Introduction to the Primates
1. Which of these items or features might be studied by a physical anthropologist?
a. A ceramic pot from an early civilization.
b. The ruins of an ancient Mayan temple.
c. The fossilized skeleton of an early primate.
d. Religious rituals in a variety of different cultures.
2. Paleoanthropology is ________.
a. the biology of human growth patterns
b. the study of evolutionary history of the primates including humans
c. the study of living primates
d. the structure and function of the human organism 3. The basic biological and behavioral similarities between humans and other primates can be traced back to ________.
a. common ancestry
b. environmental factors
c. species-specific adaptations
d. genetic drift

4. Which of the following characteristics are NOT generally found in primates?
a. highly mobile fingers and toes
b. a relatively large brain
c. a heightened sense of smell
d. the tendency to live in social groups 5. Cladistics is a biological classification system that groups organisms by ________.
a. analogous traits only
b. pleisomorphic traits only
c. apomorphic traits only
d. synapomorphic traits only
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6. Which primate radiation's distribution is represented by the highlighted (orange. regions? a. New World monkeys
b. lorises and galagos
c. lemurs
d. lesser apes

7. With the exception of humans, primate species ________.
a. all have very limited ranges
b. are not found in Australia and Japan
c. tend to live in deserts
d. mostly live in the tropical zones of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

8. See the figure. The most sexually dimorphic hominoid is the ________.
a. gorilla
b. gibbon
c. chimpanzee
d. orangutan
e. baboon

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9. Which of the following types of traits can be used to