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Chapter 9: How Did We Get Here? Quiz
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1.
Change over time in a species is called
copy editing
cultural relativity
mutagen
evolution
2.
Archbishop James Ussher estimated the age of the earth and humans to be around
4.5 billion years old
12,000 years old
6,000 years old
4.5 million years old
3.
Remains of animals that have replaced by rock are called
fossils
relics
paleos
artifacts
4.
All hominins were
very tall
knuckle-walkers
large-brained
bipedal
5.
All australopithecines have been found in
North America
South America
Asia
Africa
6.
Lucy is remarkable because
she discovered the first australopithecine in 1924
much of her post-cranial skeleton was found
she is the oldest hominin
she is the oldest australopithecine
7.
The opening for the spinal cord at the base of the skull is called
medulla oblongata
laetoli
the foramen magnum
bipedality
8.
Skeletal evidence for bipedalism includes
the position of the foramen magnum
the shape of the pelvis
the orientation of the femurs
the lack of a divergent or grasping toe
the Laetoli trackway
all are correct
9.
Homo habilis is a consistent and well-understood fossil.
False
True
10.
Homo erectus had a similar body stature to modern humans, but had a smaller brain size.
True
False
11.
A Homo erectus specimen from Lake Turkana in Afrca in which much of the post-cranial skeleton is preserved in called.
Handy Man
Neanderthal Man
Lucy
Turkana Boy
12.
Homo erectus made stone tools called
arrowheads
handaxes
Oldowan choppers
atlatl darts
13.
At the site of Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia
there is an Australopithecine trackway
very primitive examples of Homo erectus were discovered
Neanderthals buried their dead
Turkana Boy was discovered
14.
Neanderthals had slightly larger brains than humans.
False
True
15.
The Pleistocene from around 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago consisted of
the fusion of Africa and South America
a series of Australopithecine footprints
a series of ice ages
the invention of agriculture
16.
The Neandertha genome has been sequenced, and it overlaps with some modern human populations.
False
True
17.
The debate at The Pit of the Bones in Spain is
whether Homo erectus had language
whether the handaxe "Excalibur" rightfully belongs to Arthur Pendragon
whether the remains represent ritual deposition of the dead
whether Homo habilis should be considered another Australopithecine
18.
We know Neanderthal buried their dead based on
skeletons that are oriented in manner
fully articulated skeletons
both are correct!
19.
Evidence for Neanderthal cannibalism is
cave paintings representing cannibalistic rituals
fully articulated skeletons
stone tool cut marks on Neanderthal bones
written historical records
20.
Evidence for Neanderthal care and sympathy is
sympathy cards
healed wounds
cut marks on bone
excalibur
21.
Neanderthals overlapped in time with modern humans and interbred with them.
False
True
22.
Compared to Archaic humans AMH’s have
smaller browridges
a smaller brain on average
a more domed-shaped skull
all are correct
23.
Mitochondrial DNA is passed on
by recombining with nuclear DNA
only to daughters
only to sons
from mother to offspring
24.
One of the first cases to link people to people living in the past was
Homo habilis
the OJ Simpson trial
the Romanov case
the Syrian hamster revolution of 1918
25.
Hunting
started in the last 10,000 years
started during the Industrial Revolution
is not interesting to paleoanthropologists since chimps also get most of their calories from meat
is at least hundreds of thousands of years old
26.
Hunting is thought to have
helped fund the cost of the hominin brain
been invented around 5,000 years ago
arisen in gorillas first
done very little
27.
Gorilla diets
are insufficient to fund a bigger brain
are high in protein
are supplemented with cooked foods
are similar to human diets
28.
Richard Wrangham thinks
raw food diets are better for humans
cooking with fire provided extra energy to fund a larger brain
humans should eat more like gorillas
cooking foods ruins their nutrients
29.
Nina Jablonski argues that
furlessness in humans is a response to parasite load
sweat glands and furlessness are unrelated
humans sweat much like other mammals
human water sweat glands developed in response to a more open environment
30.
Nina Jablonski thinks
humans have very few sweat glands
increased pigmentation was a response to hominin furlessness
we inherited watery sweat from our Syrian hamster forebears
fire burned off human hair
Chapter 8: Human Variation
Chapter 10: Portals to the Past
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