Exam 2: Human Origins

In 1997, two Spanish paleontologists announced that their study of 8 million-year-old fossils in Spain led them to believe that:

It is suspected that Neanderthals are the ancestors of modern humans.

What is genetic engineering, and what has research using genetic engineering done? What ethical and social issues does genetic engineering present?

The Cro-Magnons, like the Neanderthals, were:

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick unraveled the double helix structure of:

The process of random genetic changes that create new characteristics is called:

Cave art is primarily associated with:

There is complete agreement among social scientists that there is no contradiction between the idea of free will and the genetic basis for the human behavior idea of sociobiology.

In human genome research it was discovered that human genes are specific to homo sapiens and are not shared by any other species.

Noam Chomsky argues that gorilla language studies invalidate the theory that humans are unique.

Which of the following is NOT a discussed reason human beings are unique?

The earliest known species of Homo (human) is Homo habilis.