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Quiz about Famous Anthropologists and Evolutionists
Quiz about Famous Anthropologists and Evolutionists

Famous Anthropologists and Evolutionists Quiz


This quiz is about some famous anthropologists and evolutionists, and what they have contributed to the world of science.

A multiple-choice quiz by celticpride. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
celticpride
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
213,051
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
9 / 15
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1036
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Question 1 of 15
1. Who came up with the four fields of anthropology? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. He was a cultural anthropologist who practiced enculturation in 1914 on the Trobriand Islands. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Who came up with the method of classification of life that we still use today? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Who came up with the idea of stratigraphy, deeper layers being the older layers? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Who came up with the idea of "natural selection"? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. He wrote an essay on population stating that food supply increases at an arithmetic rate, and population increases at a geometric rate. Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Which pair is traditionally credited with demonstrating the structure of DNA? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Who came up with population genetics, which is the scientific study of gene changes in animal populations? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. He found a hominid skull at the Taung site in South Africa. The skull was an Australopithecus Africanus, which is thought to be on the direct line of human descent. Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. This man found a skull at the Krom Draai site in South Africa. It was heavier than the skull found at Taung. This species was called Australopithecus Robustus. Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. Who went to the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and after 20 years, finally found a hominid skull? The species for this was Australopithecus Boisei. Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Who found another hominid skull, along with tools, at the Olduvai Gorge? The species for this skull is Homo Habilis. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. This person found another Homo Habilis skull along with a femur bone, the longest bone in the body, at East Lake Turkana in Kenya. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Who found a hominid skeleton in Hadar, Ethiopia? It was an Australopithecus Afarensis and was 40% complete. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. In 2002, this person reported the discovery of a hominid skull in Central Chad during 2001. It was a Sahelanthropus Tchadensis and the oldest found so far. Hint



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1. Who came up with the four fields of anthropology?

Answer: Franz Boas

The four fields of anthropology are Cultural, Biological, Archaeology, and Linguistics.
2. He was a cultural anthropologist who practiced enculturation in 1914 on the Trobriand Islands.

Answer: Bronislaw Malinowski

Enculturation is when you pretend to be a member of a culture that you are studying. One danger of enculturation is in becoming what one pretends to be. Malinowski proved this by keeping two notebooks. One was about the Trobian Islanders and the other was about himself. After a while the two notebooks started to look alike.
3. Who came up with the method of classification of life that we still use today?

Answer: Carolus Linnaeus

He devised this method of classification in 1758, and he classified all living organisms together based on structure.
4. Who came up with the idea of stratigraphy, deeper layers being the older layers?

Answer: Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell also came up with The Principle of Uniformitarianism, which states that earth has been formed by a fixed set of natural forces operating throughout time, and that the forces changing the earth today were the same that changed it in the past.
5. Who came up with the idea of "natural selection"?

Answer: Charles Darwin

Darwin is probably the best known evolutionist ever. He is very well known for his idea of natural selection, which states that the organism with the most characteristics that contribute to surviving, lives longer and leaves a greater number of offspring.
6. He wrote an essay on population stating that food supply increases at an arithmetic rate, and population increases at a geometric rate.

Answer: Thomas Malthus

Malthus said that population will always exceed the growth of food. He then stated that "perfectibility" of human society will always be out of reach.
7. Which pair is traditionally credited with demonstrating the structure of DNA?

Answer: James Watson and Francis Crick

DNA is the molecule of heredity. The discovery of DNA was a big breakthrough for the argument of evolution.

While these two were awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, they worked closely with Rosalind Franklin, whose name is now usually included as one of the co-discoverers.
8. Who came up with population genetics, which is the scientific study of gene changes in animal populations?

Answer: Theodosius Dobzhansky

Dobzhansky also came up with the Four Forces of Evolution, which are Mutation, Genetic Drift, Gene Flow, and Natural Selection.
9. He found a hominid skull at the Taung site in South Africa. The skull was an Australopithecus Africanus, which is thought to be on the direct line of human descent.

Answer: Raymond Dart

The way Raymond Dart knew it was a hominid skull was because the Foramen Magnum, the large opening in the skull where the spine connects to the brain, was at the bottom of the skull. This proves that this was a bi-pedal animal, which are hominids.
10. This man found a skull at the Krom Draai site in South Africa. It was heavier than the skull found at Taung. This species was called Australopithecus Robustus.

Answer: Robert Broom

Robert Broom also found an Australopithecus Robustus skull at Swart Krans. Then he went to Sterkfontein and found an Australopithecus Africanus.
11. Who went to the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and after 20 years, finally found a hominid skull? The species for this was Australopithecus Boisei.

Answer: Mary Leakey

Mary and her husband were searching the Olduvai Gorge for 20 years without finding anything. One day, when Mary's husband, LSB Leakey, was sick, she went out on her own. She then found the Australopithecus Boisei skull.
12. Who found another hominid skull, along with tools, at the Olduvai Gorge? The species for this skull is Homo Habilis.

Answer: LSB Leakey

When Mary returned after finding the Boisei skull, LSB went with her, and he discovered another skull with tools around it. Because it used tools when it was alive, it got a new genus, Homo. So any hominid that didn't use tools got the genus Australopithecus, and hominids that used tools got the genus Homo.
13. This person found another Homo Habilis skull along with a femur bone, the longest bone in the body, at East Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Answer: Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey is the son of LSB and Mary Leakey. When they got too old, he took over the family business, and went out to find hominid bones.
14. Who found a hominid skeleton in Hadar, Ethiopia? It was an Australopithecus Afarensis and was 40% complete.

Answer: Donald Johanson

The skull that Johanson found was the best known specimen of Australopithecus Afarensis. It was labeled AL 288-1 and got the name "Lucy". Australopithecus Afarensis probably lived 3.5 to 3.9 million years ago.
15. In 2002, this person reported the discovery of a hominid skull in Central Chad during 2001. It was a Sahelanthropus Tchadensis and the oldest found so far.

Answer: Michel Brunet

It is one of the oldest that we have found so far, but it looks more human like than the other finds. Since it is such a new fossil, little is known about the Sahelanthropus Tchadensis, also called Toumai.
Source: Author celticpride

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