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