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(1) . Who among the following gave the concept of geographical, local and micro-races ?
(1) R.D. Lewontin
(2) S.M. Garn
(3) E.A. Hooton
(4) W.C. Boyd
Answer: S.M. Garn
(2) . Which one of the following Epochs is called the “Age of Apes” ?
(1) Oligocene
(2) Eocene
(3) Pleistocene
(4) Miocene
Answer: Miocene

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(3) Which bone is known as ‘shin bone’ ?
(1) Femur
(2) Tibia
(3) Humerus
(4) Ulna
Answer: Tibia
(4) One of the first to study brachydactyly was :
(1) Francis Galton
(2) William Bateson
(3) W.C. Farabee
(4) A.E. Garrod
Answer: W.C. Farabee
(5) “Goodness of fit” test is also known as :
(1) t - test
(2) ANOVA
(3) Chi square test
(4) Regression
Answer: Chi square test
(6) The maintenance of two or more alleles in a gene pool as a result of heterozygote advantage is :
(1) Transient polymorphism
(2) Genetic Equilibrium
(3) Multiple allelism
(4) Balanced polymorphism
Answer: Balanced polymorphism
(7) A deficiency disease relating to protein energy malnutrition characterized by growth failure, edema, irritability and pigment changes in the skin is known as :
(1) Marasmus
(2) Kwashiorkor
(3) Rickets
(4) Dermatitis
Answer: Kwashiorkor
(8) The totality of deleterious alleles in a population is known as :
(1) Genetic load
(2) Genetic loss
(3) Genetic equilibrium
(4) Genetic mortality
Answer: Genetic load
(9) Who are your cross-cousins ?
(1) Your mother’s cousin’s children
(2) The children of your mother’s sister or / and your father’s brother
(3) Your father’s cousin’s children
(4) The children of your father’s sister or / and mother’s brother
Answer: The children of your father’s sister or / and mother’s brother
(10) Who among the following is regarded as an ‘armchair anthropologist’ ?
(1) Edmund Leach
(2) James Frazer
(3) Evans - Pritchard
(4) B. Malinowski
Answer: James Frazer
(11) Which of the following Constitutional Safeguard (Article) is related with the economic development of the Scheduled Tribes ?
(1) Article 339(1)
(2) Article 275(1)
(3) Article 29
(4) Article 338
Answer: Article 275(1)
(12) Who has edited the book ‘Anthropology Today An Encyclopedic Inventory’ ?
(1) Franz Boas
(2) A.L. Kroeber
(3) Edmund Leach
(4) B. Malinowski
Answer: A.L. Kroeber
(13) Who first formulated the doctrine of ‘the psychic unity of mankind’ ?
(1) L.H. Morgan
(2) A.R. Desai
(3) Kenneth Pike
(4) Adolf Bastian
Answer: Adolf Bastian
(14) Who proposed the evolutionary scheme of religion as follows ? Animism → Ancestor worship → Polytheism → Monotheism
(1) Franz Boas
(2) E.B. Tylor
(3) L.H. Morgan
(4) R.R. Marrett
Answer: E.B. Tylor
(15) The concept that behaviour in a society should be evaluated in terms of the society’s own cultural values is known as :
(1) Revivalism
(2) Configurationism
(3) Cultural relativism
(4) Ethnocentrism
Answer: Ethnocentrism

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