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| In the hominid fossil record which came first? |
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what Darwin believed in despite “the Origin of Species.”
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| The oldest known hominid tools in the fossil record are |
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| Darwin was a publicly avowed atheist (choose best answer). |
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| Darwin waited decades after his epochal trip aboard the Beagle to publish the Origin of Species in 1859. Why? |
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| he didn’t want to be ostracized by his peers for questioning religious orthodoxy |
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| According to the best available archaeological evidence, the first hominid to deliberately use fire was |
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| Mary Leaky uncovered the oldest human footprints in hominid history. The bipedal hominid’s perambulations were fossilized in a volcanic ash deposit. Where are these footprints found and when were they produced? |
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| Laetoli in Tanzania; 3.7 MYA |
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| One of the following is a common primate trait. Which one? |
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| The fact that we share over 98% of DNA with them means that A) humans are a form of chimpanzee |
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| humans share a commonancestor with Chimps |
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- The Supercontinent named Pangea split into Laurasia and ______________ 135 million years ago
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| From an anthropological perspective, the correct evolutionary line of human societies is best described as from umbilica to horticulturalist to hunter/gatherer |
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| _______ refers to the idea that another society’s customs and ideas should be viewed through the context of that other society’s worldview, not through your own central assumptions about what is right. |
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| Natural Selection, a process that increases adaptive traits through time, has three conditions or principles. One is heritability, another is differential reproductive success. The third is |
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| The first real humans didn’t settle North America until after the death of Jesus Christ, about 2 thousand years ago. (Choose best answer) |
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| Hominids diverged directly from fish between: |
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hominids did not evolve directly from fish.
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| Which one of the following is a source of human variation? |
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| Primate groups experience a prolonged dependence on the ministrations of their parents. This is an evolutionary adaptation that allows increased time for socialization and the learning process on which the transmission of culture wholly depends. The primates with the longest period of dependency are/were |
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| There were two waves of hominin migration “out of Africa” according to scientific consensus at this point in time. What were the respective species and the approximate dates of emergence? |
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Homo Erectus 1.8 MYA; Homo Sapiens 100,000 years ago |
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| How did giraffes get their long necks according to anthropologists |
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| Which one of the following lists the hominid line is correct chronological order? |
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| authralopithecus Afarensis, authralopithecus africanus, Homo habilis, home erectus, Homo sapiens. |
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| Lucy is the most complete Australopithecus Afarensis skeleton (choose best answer). |
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| true, she was discovered in the 1970s, |
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| The reductions of the face, teeth and jaws in the Genus Homo may be tied to selective pressures that relaxed the necessity for a strong chewing apparatus. This was likely the result of the development of tools and control of fire which resulted in easier to chew food. This phenomenon is called |
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| The evolution of bipedalism is theorized as being related to all of the following except ONE |
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| freeing the hands to make tools for butchering and weapons |
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| This African site is a gold mine for human fossils. It shears down stratum after stratum exposing fossils that would otherwise have remained sealed. The site is called |
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| This form of evidence has been used to make the suggestion that modern humans may have diverged from Neanderthals about 600,000 years ago. |
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| A population that consists of organisms able to interbreed and produce fertile and viable offspring is called |
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| Which of the following living primates are not among the five closest species to humans? (choose best answer) |
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| Which of the following is a central social/behavioral feature that defines the bonobos? |
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| Primate groups like gibbons, chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans experience a prolonged dependence on the ministrations of their parents. This is an evolutionary adaptation that allows increased time for socialization and the learning process on which the transmission of culture wholly depends. With the advance of culture, humans, in comparison these other primate groups, have been selected for smallest period of parental dependence than its primate cousins (choose best answer) |
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| Which of the following was NOT among the first crops domesticated by the ancient Mesopotamians? |
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| She is a primatologist who famously studied chimps |
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| What is the place of the mythic Garden of Eden? |
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| thejunctionoftheTigrisandEuphratesrivers |
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- The origin of civilization is related to all but one of the following. Which one?
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| Despite the current Recession, the fact is that the United States is still primarily a middle class society |
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| For 20,000 years the Kung San led a foraging existence as hunters and gatherers in the Nile Valley |
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| The largest primate known to us is estimated to have been 10 feet tall and over 600 pounds. It survived for about 10 million years and was not part of the hominid line. It probably survived on bamboo. It was called |
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| In bipedal hominids, the spinal column enters the skull at the bottom, through a hole called the |
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| The first evidence that an erect bipedal hominid existed in the Pliocene epoch was found by this man in 1925. He called the specimen the Taung child. Its formal species name is Australopithecus Africanus. Who was that man? |
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| Homo sapiens did not independently evolve from another Homo species in North America. In fact the species disseminated here from elsewhere. (choose best answer) |
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| True according to the best available evidence |
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| The earliest known peoples known to have stored surplus crops did so in an area that is now Israel and Jordan |
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| What is the “Eve hypothesis? |
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| mitochondrial DNA evidence which suggests that our common ancestor lived only 200,000 years ago |
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| When crops cultivated (like barley or wheat) and animals raised are modified – different from wild varieties— we can then speak of plant and animal |
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| This was the largest city in the new world north of Mexico pre 1492 |
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| The wild grains of wheat and barley have a fragile _____________ the seed bearing part of the stem. In the process of domestication this part of the stem becomes tougher. The omitted word is |
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| Cahokia is located within the metropolitan area of which modern-day city? |
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| Approximately how old is the oldest civilization? |
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| The earliest form of writing was from ancient Sumer (in Mesopotamia) |
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| There are three central aspects related to the fall of civilizations. The first is disease; the second is the imperial overreach of the military. The third is |
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| College life can be said to have has two central components: skill development for job acquisition and critical thinking skills to become empowered citizens to transform the world. This course has stressed the latter objective |
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