Exam 10: Early Hominin Origins and Evolution: The Roots of Humanity

A key finding of the study of early hominins is that

Which of the following is an adaptive characteristic of bipedalism?

Based on the research of Philip Reno, early hominins show reduced sexual dimorphism, which is evidence for cooperation and likely for

Ardi was adapted to life in trees and

Discuss the anatomical changes that occurred in the bipedal hominin and how they reflect certain habitat adaptations, and then discuss the hypotheses that propose why the change occurred.

The small canyon in northern Tanzania where many early hominin fossils have been recovered (often referred to as the "cradle of humankind") is

Starting with the work of Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin based his theory of human origins on which set of observations?

The patchy forest hypothesis proposes that forests

Robust australopithecines are also called

Which of the following is an adaptive characteristic of bipedalism?

The earliest hominins probably lived in which kind of environment?

The adaptive radiation of the australopithecines after their split from the lineage that led to early Homo seems to have focused on

Ardi's intermediate form of bipedality included the use of

The MOST obvious features defining the robust australopithecines compared to other early hominins are

Owen Lovejoy's provisioning hypothesis proposes that

The first recognizable ancestors of the lineage leading to humans are

Beginning more than 3 mya, at least two lineages of hominin emerged, one that led to the genus Homo and one that

Fossils attributed to Australopithecus garhi were found at the Bouri site, in Ethiopia, along with

An increased ability to see greater distances is one of the adaptations to

Based on the morphology of the hand phalanx, Orrorin tugenensis lived in a