Changing the Way in Which Museum Artifacts Were Grouped from Presenting

question 54

Multiple Choice

Changing the way in which museum artifacts were grouped from presenting sets of similar objects together (e.g., hats with hats) to placing artifacts from the same culture together coincides with a shift in early 1900 anthropology from:

• A) relativism to natural selection.
• B) unilinear evolutionary thinking to relativist thinking.
• C) cultural anthropology to biological anthropology.
• D) Lamarckism to Darwinism.
• E) biological determinism to cultural determinism.

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Definitions:

Genetic Diversity

The total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species, which enables populations to adapt to changing environments.

Colonization Patterns

Describes how species spread to new areas, establishing populations and the factors influencing their distribution and abundance.

Primate Species

Members of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, characterized by large brains, forward-facing eyes, and dexterous hands.

Homo Floresiensis

An extinct species of small-statured humans that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until approximately 50,000 years ago.