List of top Anthropology Questions

Arrange in sequence from the earliest to the most recent:
1. Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Homo habilis and Homo sapiens
2. Homo habilis, Homo sapiens, Australopithecus and Homo erectus
3. Homo habilis, Australopithecus, Homo sapiens and Homo erectus
4. Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens
Which of the following is not a feature of Living Primates?
Match items in List-I with the items in List-II:
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Match items in List-I with the items in List-II:
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The Political Organization of Garo tribes is run on :
Given below are two statements : one is labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Australopithecines revealed an adaptive radiation of early hominins. Reason (R): Australopithecines show intergenic difference. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Which of the following conditions make 'Mean' misrepresentative of data ?
• [A.] Presence of outlier in the data
• [B.] Ordinal variable
• [C.] Bell shaped data distribution
• [D.] Skewed data
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What will be the median of the given data of weight (in kg) ? \[ 70,\; 54,\; 45,\; 50,\; 68,\; 47,\; 75,\; 56,\; 55,\; 60,\; 72,\; 68,\; 66,\; 59,\; 57,\; 48 \]
Which of the following are not Homo erectus ?
• [A.] Peking Man
• [B.] Lucy
• [C.] Tuang child
• [D.] Black skull
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Which of the following study design is employed for the study of velocity growth curve ?
'Uthal' and 'Janghi' are the two groups of :
Arrange the following sequence in descending order :
• [A.] Zygotene
• [B.] Diakinesis
• [C.] Pachytene
• [D.] Diplotene
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Arrange the following books in chronological order of year of publication with the earlier one being first.
• [A.] Peasant society and culture
• [B.] Patterns of culture
• [C.] The Elementary structure of kinship
• [D.] The Andaman Islanders
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Which of the following are the rules of residence ?
• [A.] Virilocal
• [B.] Uxorilocal
• [C.] Glocal
• [D.] Amitalocal
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Which of the following technique is known as free flaking technique ?
Arrange the following books in chronological order year of publication with the earliest being first.
• [A.] Principles of Geology
• [B.] An Essay on the Principle of Population
• [C.] Essay on the Theory of the Earth
• [D.] Philosophy Zoologique
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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Inbreeding increases the homozygosity of allele at a locus. Reason (R): High homozygosity enhances genetic load. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
Match List - I with List - II. {ll} List - I & List - II
(Deposition) & (Features)

A. Laterites & I. Sediments deposited by river
B. Moraine & II. Dust deposited at height
C. Alluvial & III. Mineral deposition due to rock weathering
D. Loess & IV. Mounds formed by glaciers

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Arrange the following fieldwork steps in sequence from initial.
• [A.] Formation of schedule/questionnaire
• [B.] Finalization of data collection tools
• [C.] Identification of Research Problem
• [D.] Rapport establishment
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In which cultural period does the late Soan tools belong to ?
Which of the following are not relative dating ?
• [A.] Thermoluminescence
• [B.] Stratigraphy
• [C.] Palynology
• [D.] Varve analysis
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The village headman called ‘Manjhi’ is both a civil and moral authority among :
Which of the following statements are not correct ?
• [A.] Each DNA strand could act as a template for production of new complementary strand
• [B.] Change in one or more base pairs do not alter the encoded information
• [C.] Replication is the process of protein synthesis
• [D.] The sugar molecule in RNA is deoxyribose
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Arrange the following excavation processes in sequences.
• [A.] Removal of overburden
• [B.] Grid layout
• [C.] Recovery of artifacts
• [D.] Identification of stratigraphy layers
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Match List - I with List - II. List - I (Scholars)
• [A.] Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• [B.] Georges Cuvier
• [C.] Thomas Malthus
• [D.] Charles Lyell List - II (Concept)
• [I.] Catastrophism
• [II.] Uniformitarianism
• [III.] Inheritance of acquired character
• [IV.] Principle of Population
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