Biological Anthropology Questions

what evidence do we expect to find in fossil record to support that humans and the African great apes all descended from a common ancestor ?

what is one of the most important notion when talking about biomimicry ?

The species of large-brained, robust hominins that lived btween 1.8 and 0.4 mya isA) Homo habilisB) Homo erectusC) Homo ergasterD) Homo sapiens

Biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham suggests that cooking food affected human evolution in which of the following ways:A) Smaller teeth evolvedB) Hunting became possibleC) Plant food became more disgestiableD) All of the above

Compared with Neandertals, anatomically modern human beings A) Are less robustB) Have larger molarsC) Have retromolar spacesD) Lack chins

Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of the skull of Homo erectusA) Heavy brow ridgesB) A cranial capacity of around 1,000 cubic centimetersC) An occipital bunD) A sagittal crest

Darwin's innovation in defining the species was to emphasizeA) What members of a species have in commonB) The connections of species to other speciesC) How individual members of a species differD) The survival potential of the species

As discussed in the text, Rick Potts has argued that the most efficient way for early hominins to get stones for stone tools together with animal carcasses to be processed with those tools would be for early homininsA) To carry the stones with them in shoulder slings made of animal hidesB) To use the stones found in the area of the carcass and discard them after useC) To store stones at various spots and bring the carcasses to the nearest supply of stonesD) To establish a strong ome base with a lart supply of stones collected around the region

The shaping of useful features of an organism by natural selection for the function they now perform isA) AptationB) AdaptationC) ExaptationD) Reconciliation

Australopiths with small and lightly built faces are known asA) Ramidine australopithsB) Gracile australopithsC) Robust australopithsD) Pygmy australopiths

The idea of inheritance of acquired characters holds thatA) The physical result of the use or disuse of organs could be passed from one generation to the nextB) The environment does not allow for certain accidentally acquired characteristics to be passed from one generation to the nextC) As a species adapts to an environment, changes in gene frequency are passed to the next generationD) Only those characteristics that are acquired may be inherited

Which of the following is NOT an element of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?A) Crossing-overB) Natural selectionC) Struggle for existenceD) Variation

The "Neandertals" areA) Hominin fossils that apparently evolved from an earlier population of Homo erectus in Africa about 500,000 years agoB) Hominin fossils from Europe and western Asia that apparently evolved from an earlier population of archaic Homo sapiens about 130,000 years ago C) Hominin fossils from China that apparently evolved from an earlier population of Homo erectus about 1 million years agoD) Hominin fossils from Asia that apparently evolved from an earlier population of archaic Homo sapiens about 200,000 years ago

The style of stone-tool making that involves knocking a few flakes off tennis-ball-sized rocks to produce cutting edges is called theA) Core traditionB) Oldowan traditionC) Acheulean traditionD) Chopping tool tradition

The Laetoli footprintsA) Appear to have been made by a hominin with a striding gait and short, straight toesB) Fit perfectly with the reconstructed foot anatomy of A. afarensisC) were probably made by Homo habilisD) Were probably made by Homo erectus

Which of the following abilities is NOT considered an advantage of bipedalism over quadrupedalism?A) Climbing treesB) Spotting predators easily in open countryC) Escaping more easily from predators in open countryD) Covering greater distances with greater energy efficiency, although at lower speeds

The famous "Lucy" fossil was found inA) KenyaB) TanzaniaC) EthiopiaD) Uganda

The "Lucy" fossil is famous becauseA) She was the first australopith ever foundedB) She left footprints that were discovered at the same timeC) Her skeleton was 40% intact and undisturbedD) The Beatles wrote a song about her

Which of the following is NOT considered one of the four important areas of hominin evolution?A) Bipedal locomotionB) Expanded brainC) Changes in dentitionD) Loss of body fur

Organisms that eat a wide range of plant and animal foods are calledA) OmnivorousB) Multimodal feedersC) Generalized foragingD) Broadly based