Exam 7: The Genus Homo 

Excavations between Bed I and Bed II at Olduvai suggest that significant changes in technology occurred during a comparatively short 200,000-year period. The tools found illustrate a shift toward functional differentiation, which means that

To what does the advent of behavioral modernity refer?

The spread of H. erectus from tropical and subtropical climates into temperate zones was facilitated by all of the following EXCEPT

Although scientists agree on the nature of behavioral modernity, they disagree on how and where it originated.

Which of the following fossil finds from South Africa's Rising Star cave was announced in 2015?

Some authors attribute the rise of modern human behavior more to increasing social competition than to population increase or a mutation that led to reconfigurations of the brain.

Which of the following is a difference between H. erectus and the australopiths?

With the end of the Würm glacial period, human groups shifted their subsistence strategies to a broader spectrum of species that they exploited.

Anatomically modern humans spread out of Africa and eventually replaced what nonmodern human type in the Far East?

Scientists continue to debate the relationship between two Homo fossil finds: KNM-ER 1470, named H. rudolfensis by some, and KNM-ER 1813, generally considered to be an exemplar of H. habilis. Is the smaller KNM-ER 1813 a distinct species? Could it be a female version of KNM-ER 1470, both being simply a female and male pair of the highly variable H. habilis? The only sure conclusion is that

Which of the following sites is NOT included in the probable range of H. erectus?

All of the following characterized the changeover from the Mousterian to the Upper Paleolithic EXCEPT

Who were the Denisovans?

From where does mitochondrial DNA come?

The stone-tool tradition associated with Neandertals is called the Mousterian.

What is the name of the time period that evolved out of the Oldowan, or pebble tool, tradition and lasted until about 15,000 years ago?

European fossils and tools have contributed disproportionately to our knowledge and interpretation of anatomically modern H. sapiens. What explains this?

What have researchers learned by looking at the molars and other cranial features of H. erectus?

With the movement of H. erectus out of Africa, H. erectus eventually colonized Europe and Asia.

What group was found to have a pronounced brow ridge, stocky build, and massive nasal cavities, characteristics that were adaptations to cold weather?