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