ANT 2301 Exam 1 Questions & Answers
What is sexuality? Why do we care to understand it? - ✔✔Sexuality is more than just sex. It is a
dimension of one's personality which includes feelings and behaviors, shaped by ethni
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ANT 2301 Exam 1 Questions & Answers
What is sexuality? Why do we care to understand it? - ✔✔Sexuality is more than just sex. It is a
dimension of one's personality which includes feelings and behaviors, shaped by ethnic, cultural,
and religious boundaries.
What is anthropology? - ✔✔The holistic study of human kind, past, present, and future.
What are the four subfields of anthropology? - ✔✔1. Cultural: contemporary societies and their
variations in thoughts and beliefs.
2. Linguistic: variation of communication and roots of languages, how these shape behavior
(mating cues, media)
3. Archaeological: Artifacts, skeletons, animals plants of the past (past sexual behaviors)
4. Biological: biological organism, evolutionary framework
How can each subfield inform or answer questions with regards to human sexuality? - ✔✔1.
Cultural: cultural norms regarding sex
2. Linguistic: mating cues, media, language
3. Archaeological: past sexual behavior
4. Biological: roots of sexual behavior, anatomy & physiology, developmental stages, conception
How does the scientific method work? - ✔✔The scientific method seeks to support, not prove.
An observation is made, then a hypothesis, data is recorded, and then they hypothesis is either
supported or refuted.
Define biological evolution and some mechanisms that drive it. - ✔✔the genetic change in
populations of living things over generations. It's also been called microevolution. Basically
evolution is driven by forces of nature
sexual selection - ✔✔A form of natural selection in which individuals with certain inherited
characteristics are more likely than other individuals to obtain mates.
What is sexual dimorphism? - ✔✔marked differences between the sexes in secondary sexual
characteristics
What is culture and why might it be difficult to define? - ✔✔The definition of culture depends
on the field that you're talking about. Culture can be arbitrary.
How might culture interact with evol
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