Exam 19: Primate and Human Evolution

The anthropoids appear in the fossil record by the late Eocene.

Discuss the human lineage.

Which hypothesis proposes that early modern humans established separate populations throughout Eurasia, and had occasional interbreeding between populations?

Primates are difficult to characterize as an order because____.

Describe and discuss the lifestyle of Cro-Magnons.

Evidence that hominins were bipedal comes from fossil footprints in volcanic ash, discovered in Tanzania by ____________________ ____________________ in 1978.

The ____________________ represent the first artists in our human lineage.

The earliest known hominid fossils are from rocks that are ____.

Prosimians are Old World monkeys.

Contrast Old World monkeys with New World monkeys.

Which family includes bipedal primates such as Australopithecus and Homo ?

Most human ancestors (ancestors of Homo) have become extinct.

Discuss the evolution of the hominids from the anthropoids.

Prosimian populations were greatly affected by the change from warm tropical to cooler mid-latitude climate in the early Cenozoic.

The Primates order is differentiated from other orders of mammals based on several characteristics. List four ways to distinguish primates from other mammals.

The Old World monkeys and the New World monkeys ultimately gave rise to the hominids.

The Primate order is divided into two suborders: ____________________ and ____________________.

Primates evolved from birds as indicated by their arboreal ancestry.

The earliest hominin fossil, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, is 7-million years old.

Although Homo erectus migrated outside of Africa, some scientists believe that modern humans evolved in one African location, and then migrated from Africa.