Exam 19: Primate and Human Evolution

Features of hominins, such as large brain size and bipedalism, developed in response to ____.

Anthropoids evolved from ____ sometime during the Late Eocene.

The three superfamilies of the ____________________ are Cercopithecoidea (or Old World monkeys), Ceboidea (or New World monkeys), Hominoidea (or hominoids).

As continents moved northward, prosimians ____.

Neanderthals are somewhat different than modern humans with the most obvious difference being their skull structure.

Paleontologists and biologists often argue about how humans evolved. What is their argument about, and why does this dispute not undermine the scientific process?

Homo sapien s have inhabited Earth for fewer than 250,000 years.

How did the species of australopithecines differ? How were they similar?

Hominids have existed on Earth longer than the dinosaurs did.

Present-day hominids arose from the ____________________ and ____________________ groups.

Hominoids are a family of hominids.

Homo habilis likely evolved from an australopithecine ancestor.

Australopithecus sediba is most likely the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens .

Humans are most closely related to ____.

All paleontologists agree that Neanderthals are a subspecies of modern humans.

While in South America, you discover a fossil with a prehensile tail and flat face. Which type of primate is this fossil most likely to be?

Bipedalism of early hominids probably developed as a response to changing climatic conditions that resulted in changes from forest to savanna.

The first hominins lived in the forests.

The earliest tool-maker in the human lineage was ____________________.

The New World Monkeys evolved in Central and South America after those landmasses split from Africa.