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Kinship
Final Exam - Chapais
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
05/11/2011

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T/F - Over the last many hundreds of years, kinship defined groups have declined in significance to be replaced by a narrower focus on the family.
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True
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The deep structure of human society resulted from at integration of __________ with the ancestral male kin group
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pair-bonding
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The ______________ was the fortuitous byproduct of bipedalism (gathering) with ______________ (as mate guarding) and a chimpanzee like hunting bias.
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Sexual division of labor, pair-bonding
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Group wide uterine kinship structures were a correlate of female localization and __________
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Lifetime mother-daughter bonds
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Agnatic kinship structures emerged from the conjunction of kin-recognition abilities, male localization, __________ (allowing paternity recognition) and _______________.
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pair-bonding, lifetime father-son bonds
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Kin-group exogamy and post marital residence patterns were the outcome of _______________ (allowing for agnatic kinship) merging with kin-group dispersal.
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Pair-bonding
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Bilateral kinship networks appeared as soon as uterine kinship recognition processes combind with consistent paternity recognition (______________) and the _____________________
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pair-bonding, tribal level of social org.
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Bilateral recognition of affines co-occurred wit the development of consanguineal kinship, ____________, and intergroup pacification
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pair-bonding
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The most basic aspects of unilineal descent were emergent properties combining ____________, matrifiliation (patrifiliation), and social transmittable entities like social status or knowledge.
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Sex-biased dispersal
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..between group marriage through marriage
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Exogamy
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...Social facts carried forth by force of habit
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Survivals
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Remaining in ones birthplace
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Philopatry
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Information precessing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning
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Cognitive capacity
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Learned, copied behavior
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Culture
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Least complex explanation for an observation
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Parsimonious
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feelings of sexual inhibition between individuals reared as kin
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The Westermark effect
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Understanding one thing in terms of another
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Metaphor
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Variation in heritable traits and their differential reproduction
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Natural selection
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Blood relative
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consanguine
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traits, the product of similar selective pressures acting separately in different species
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Homoplasy
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Kin related through females only
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Uterine Kin
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the sum of individual reproductive success plus the number of equivalents added to the population by supporting others
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Inclusive fitness
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kin related through males only
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Agnatic kin
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traits, the product of common ancestry
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homology
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recognition of mates kin on both sides
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bilateral kinship
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marriage within group
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endogamy
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In-laws
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Affines
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T/F - Marriage in humans in something that is symbolically elaborated and culturally variable, and thus, only determined by culture, according to Chapais
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False - pair-bonding exists in nonhuman primates w/o symbolic capacity
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Helen Fisher in Why We Love (2006) describe three distinct categories of emotion that are involved in human pair bonding, these are:
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Lust, Attachment, and romantic love
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T/F - The relative weight of the human neonates brain is similar to that in great apes, but the human baby is born at an earlier stage of development and will take longer to attain adult size. Such life history differences may be evidence of selection for infantile traits also known as ...
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Neotany. True
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T/F - Food sharing is the single most important factor in the exogamy configuration
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False
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T/F - Kristen Hawkes, James O'Connell and Nicolas Blurton Jones argued that successful hunter's nuclear families did no necessarily favor their own families and gave away large proportions of the kill.
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True
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T/F - Mike Gurven et all showed that hunters families got considerabily more meat that other faimilies
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True
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T/F - The problem with many evolutionary scenarios shown by Chapais is that they account for the origin of the family in terms of its actual working and present day adaptive function
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True
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Kin-group exogamy and post marital residence patterns were the outcome of _______________ (allowing for agnatic kinship) merging with kin-group dispersal. Chapais proposes that monogamy in humans evolved in a two-step process beginning first with multi-male multi-female units and promiscuous mating moving to polygyny, and secong moving from polygyny to monogamy
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True
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T/F - Paternal care occurs in mammals that breed monogamously, so paternal care is a necessary condition of pair-bonding or monogamy
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False, this is backwards
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In most mammals, stable breeding bones like exemplify male reproductive strategies of....
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Mate Guarding
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T/F - to Chapais, monogamy replaced polygyny as the spcies typical mating strategy when the costs of polygyny became to high for males. The invention of tools could have had the effect of equalizing physical abilities in males.
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True
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Why was the quest for the origin of human sociality forsaken at the end of the 19th century?
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A desire to separate from deterministic fields frowned upon by Boasians. Also human origins are an interdisciplinary study and everyone tended to be very specialized.
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