Practice Quizzes for Biological Anthropology


1. Early Theories of Evolution		2. Basic Principles of Genetics
a. Pre-Darwinian Theories		a. Mendel's Genetics
b. Darwin and Natural Selection		b. Probability of Inheritance
c. Evidence of Evolution		c. Exceptions to Simple Inheritance

3. Biological Basis of Heredity		4. Human Chromosomal Abnormalities
a. Basic Cell Structures		a. Overview
b. Cell Reproduction		b. Detection
c. Recombination and Linkage		c. Common Abnormalities
d. Sex Linked Genes		d. Autosomal Abnormalities
e. Molecular Level of Genetics		e. Sex Chromosome Abnormalities

5. Synthetic Theory of Evolution
a. Overview		e. Gene Flow
b. Mutation		f. Recombination
c. Natural Selection		g. Non-Random Mating
d. Small Population Size Effects		h. Micro and Macro Evolution

6. Human Blood		7. Modern Human Variation
a. Blood Components		a. Overview
b. ABO Blood Types		b. Models of Classification
c. Rh Blood Types		c. Distribution of Blood Types

8. Human Biological Adaptability		9. Classification of Living Things
a. Overview		a. Introduction
b. Adapting to Climate Extremes		b. Principles of Classification
c. Adapting to High Altitude		c. Kingdom to Subphylum
d. Skin Color Adaptation		d. Class
e. Nutritional Adaptation		e. Subclass to Infraclass

10. Primates
a. Overview		e. New World Monkeys
b. Prosimians: Part I		f. Old World Monkeys
c. Prosimians: Part II		g. Apes
d. Monkeys		h. Humans

11. Primate Behavior		12. Record of Time
a. Background		a. The Nature of Fossils
b. Social Structure		b. Overview of Dating
c. Adaptations for Group Living		c. Relative Techniques
d. Communication		d. Chronometric Techniques: Part I
		e. Chronometric Techniques: Part II

13. Early Primate Evolution		14. Early Hominin Evolution
a. How Old is Old?		a. Discovery of Early Hominins
b. The First Primates		b. Analysis of Early Hominins

15. Early Human Evolution		16. Evolution of Modern Humans
a. Early Transitional Humans		a. Homo heidelbergensis
b. Homo erectus		b. Neandertals
c. Climate Change and Human Evolution		c. Archaic Homo sapiens Culture
d. Early Human Culture		d. Early Modern Homo sapiens
		e. Early Modern Human Culture

Biological Anthropology Tutorials