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