Statistics for Anthropology Vocabulary Words

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Society's ideas and values that are reflected in that group's behavior	Culture	79%
Process by which species biologically change over time	Evolution	78%
Extinct proto-human group living in Europe about 30,000 years ago	Neandertals	60%
Meanings assigned to the biological differentiation of the sexes	Gender	57%
Communication using sounds or gestures that follows a set of rules	Language	52%
Detailed description of a group based on the above	Ethnography	49%
General term for on-location research	Fieldwork	46%
Study of living and fossil primates	Primatology	46%
Arbitrary item, sign or sound empowered with meaning	Symbol	40%
Worldwide interconnectedness especially in trade	Globalization	39%
Change in behavior or biology caused by a change in environment	Adaptation	36%
Identification of human remains for legal purposes	Forensics	36%
Communication form that reflects regions, occupations or social class	Dialect	31%
Type of data that includes nonstatistical information such as stories	Qualitative	31%
Economic foundation of a society; also refers to roads	Infrastructure	30%
Series of symbols representing the sounds of a language	Alphabet	29%
Based on observations of the world rather than intuition or faith	Empirical	21%
Process by which the above is passed between generations	Enculturation	17%
The study of communication sounds	Phonology	15%
"National Customs" ; the expression of cultural ideas by a group	Ethnicity	10%