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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A children being raised in proximity
B culturally sanctioned laws
C learned behavior
D status
Question #2
A conflicting needs
B family size
C nutrition
D monogamy
Question #3
A basiocranial flexion
B prefrontal lobe
C Wernicke’s area
D hyoid bone
Question #4
A allows for extended neurological development
B causes a reduced period of social learning
C only occurs rarely
D quickens the onset of adulthood
Question #5
A via the coast of Siberia
B by crossing the Atlantic on watercraft
C directly from Africa on a South Atlantic land bridge
D during the Middle Stone Age
Question #6
A Regional Homo erectus characteristics were replaced by those of H. neanderthalensis.
B There was an abrupt separation of Homo erectus and H. sapiens populations.
C Homo neanderthalensis did not interbreed with anatomically modern H. sapiens.
D There was a single evolving lineage of Homo sapiens in each region of the Old World.
Question #7
A is not supported by genetic data
B maintains that humans had a localized origin
C implies that modern human variation evolved millions of years ago
D is often called the Multiregional Model
Question #8
A modern homo sapiens have an Asian origin
B they are related to Neandertals
C late surviving Homo erectus populations gave rise to modern Homo sapiens
D a third hominin could have existed along with Neandertal and modern Homo
Question #9
A modern humans
B Neandertals
C Homo Heidelbergensis
D Homo erectus
Question #10
A Spain
B Indonesia
C England
D France
Question #11
A were more peaceful than the African counterparts
B left Africa before the hand-axe was invented
C had less dexterous hands
D had smaller brains
Question #12
A Acheulean tools were associated with Homo erectus.
B Oldowan tools were made from stone.
C Acheulean tools were bifaced.
D Oldowan tools were flaked.
Question #13
A Saudi Arabia
B Israel
C Indonesia
D the Republic of Georgia
Question #14
A trapping
B scavenging
C hunting
D herding
Question #15
A a prognathic face
B pronounced sagittal crest
C a parabolic dental arcade
D long canines
Question #16
A meat-eaters.
B more social than gracile australopithecines.
C an evolutionary dead end.
D much more aggressive than gracile australopithecines.
Question #17
A radiocarbon; type-analysis
B seriation; absolute
C absolute; relative
D relative; absolute
Question #18
A Hominins in South Africa lived in caves.
B Hominin bones fell into caves through holes in the ceiling.
C Predators often dragged hominins they had killed into caves.
D Hominins seemed to have crawled into caves to die.
Question #19
A Ardipithecus ramidus
B Sahelanthropus tchadensis
C Australopithecus anamensis
D Orrorin tugenensis
Question #20
A It is the oldest hominin fossil ancient DNA as been extracted from.
B It provides the earliest evidence of stone tool use.
C It had ape-like facial features but cranial characteristics suggesting bipedalism.
D Its features suggest it may actually be the earliest member of Homo.
Question #21
A The fossil record for hominins between 10 and 6 million years ago has too many specimens to classify.
B No hominin finds date from 7 to 4.4 million years ago.
C The first hominin was likely an alien and therefore left no trace.
D Hominin fossils from the late Miocene are very fragmentary and show only slight differences from apes.
Question #22
A some reduction of the canine and partial reduction or absence of the diastema
B an essentially ape-like dentition
C some reduction of the canine, but an ape-like diastema
D no reduction of the canine, but partial reduction of the diastema
Question #23
A lumbar vertebrae
B sagittal crest
C foramen magnum
D brow ridge
Question #24
A It had a diet that consisted of insects.
B It was the largest monkey that ever lived.
C It lived in western Africa.
D It co-existed with Homo erectus.
Question #25
A Monkeys are more intelligent.
B Apes cannot react quickly enough to changing environments.
C Monkeys can are better adapted to arboreal environments.
D Monkeys can more easily shift to efficient terrestrial locomotion.
Question #26
A Pliocene
B Jurassic
C Eocene
D Miocene
Question #27
A social
B bipedal
C intelligent
D visual predators
Question #28
A birds
B microscopic life forms
C lizards
D flowering plants
Question #29
A cooling and increased moisture
B warming and increased moisture
C cooling and drying
D warming and drying
Question #30
A Hadean
B Mesozoic
C Phanerozoic
D Cenozoic