In the study of human evolution, scientists define modern in terms of: |
a series of distinctive anatomical traits that contrast with archaic traits from earlier hominins |
Modern humans have: |
a high vertical forehead, a round and tall skull, and small browridges |
Broken Hill, Dali, and Atapuerca are sites where specimens of _______ have been discovered. |
Archaic Homo sapiens |
Archaic Homo sapiens: |
Shows a mixture of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits |
The last Neandertals date to: |
32,000 yBP |
To date, the majority of Neandertal fossils have been found in: |
Europe and western Asia. |
Analyses of modern human genetic variation indicate that Homo sapiens may have evolved approximately: |
200,000 yBP |
Traits of anatomically modern humans include: |
an average cranial capacity of 1,500 cc. |
Anatomically modern human fossils were discovered in the European Upper Paleolithic site of: |
Cro-Magnon, France. |
The people represented by the Denisova fossils likely: |
Share a common ancestor with Neandertals |
The multiregional continuity hypothesis supposes that: |
The transition to modernity took place regionally and without involving replacement |
In Atapeura 5, early archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertal specimens show heavy wear on the incisors and canines, indicating: |
The use of the front teeth for gripping materials |
Neandertals’ cold-adapted traits include: |
A projecting midface |
The oldest Neandertal site dates to _______, at _______. |
130,000 yBP; Krapina, Croatia |
The European archeological period that is marked by a great increase in technology and various kinds of art starting about 35,000 yBP is called the: |
Upper Paleolithic period |
The Middle Paleolithic is associated with _______ tools, which Neandertals produced. |
Mousterian |
The Levallois method of stone tool production is associated with the: |
Mousterin. |
The Middle Paleolithic prepared-core stone tools that are associated with Neandertals are called: |
Mousterian. |
The best fossil evidence to suggest that Neandertals could produce a language like that of modern humans comes from which bone(s) collected at Kebara, Israel? |
The hyoid |
Painted perforated shells are evidence that Neandertals: |
Used body ornaments |
Compared to modern Homo sapiens, archaic Homo sapiens has: |
-A taller and wider nasal aperture, a more projecting occipital bone, larger teeth, and no chin -A longer and lower skull, a larger browridge, and a bigger and more projecting face. |
The Neandertals’ disappearance after 30,000 yBP likely resulted from their: |
Assimilation |
The discovery of modern/archaic hybrid fossils supports which model of modern human origins? |
Assimilation |
All fossils of archaic Homo sapiens and earlier Homo erectus show: |
-Continued reduction in skeletal robusticity and tooth size -Expansion of the brain and increased cultural complexity |
The Herto skulls from Ethiopia: |
Have a combination of archaic and modern features |
The fossils called Homo floresiensis were dated to: |
18,000 yBP |
Human beings first arrived in the Americas approximately: |
15,000 yBP |
The Homo floresiensis specimen: |
Fits Allen’s rule in body proportions |
According to John Relethford, the most likely reasons for modern humans to have migrated out of Africa during the late Pleistocene include: |
-Loss of food supply -Climate change |
The earliest archaeological evidence of humans in Australia is from _______, dating to _______. |
Lake Mungo; 40,000 yBP |
A distinctive trait of people from East Asia and the Americas is: |
Shovel-shaped incisors |
Early Native Americans used which distinctive fluted spear points to hunt large-bodied Ice Age mammals? |
Clovis points |
The morphology of the Paleoindian skull from Kennewick indicates that it: |
Looks quite different from modern Native Americans’ skulls |
A hominid fossil that has a long, low skull, projecting face and occipital bone, and large nasal aperture is likely to be classified as having _______ characteristics. |
Archaic |
While on an archaeological dig in Europe, you find a stone tool that is rounded on one side and has had flakes removed from the other side, giving it the appearance of a tortoise shell. This is likely |
none of the above |
Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules are perfect examples of natural selection’s effects on anatomical adaptations to environments in mammals. These include the limb and trunk proportions of: |
Neandertals, modern human populations, and most mammals |
Sub-Saharan Africans show the largest genetic diversity of any human population. This is likely to have resulted from the: |
Accumulations of genetic mutations over time |
The most distinctive traits about the cold adaptation complex of Neandertals are: |
The body and the length of the arms and legs. |
The transition to fully modern Homo sapiens was completed globally by about: |
25,000 yBP |
The out-of-Africa model asserts: |
A single origin of modern people and eventual replacement of archaic Homo sapiens throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe |
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