CH6

Question 1

What is a Population?

Answer 1

DemeRaceSubspeciesPolytypic Species

Question 2

Recording Human Variation in Past Civilizations

Answer 2

Ancient Egyptians: recognized physical differences of people around them–Ancient Greeks: recognized “Ethiopians” who were dark-skinned people–Romans: had at least as extensive knowledge as the Greeks of the variety of peoples that could be found in the western part of Eurasia and north Africa; limited contact with Han Chinese traders

Question 3

Monogenism

Answer 3

all people of all races are the product of a single creation

Question 4

Environmentalism

Answer 4

the view that the environment has great powers to directly shape the anatomy of individual organisms

Question 5

Polygenism

Answer 5

the different races can be viewed in terms of their own evolutionary history

Question 6

Racism

Answer 6

A prejudicial belief that members of one ethnic group are superior in some way to those of another.

Question 7

Deconstructing Racial Features

Answer 7

–Skin Color–Eye Form–Hair Color and Form–Head Shape

Question 8

Population genetics

Answer 8

the study of genetic variation within and between groups of organisms

Question 9

Microevolution

Answer 9

the study of evolutionary phenomena that occur within a species

Question 10

Polymorphic

Answer 10

two or more distinct phenotypes that exist within a population

Question 11

Phylogeny

Answer 11

an evolutionary tree indicating relatedness and divergence of taxonomic groups