Exam 4: What Can the Fossil Record Tell Us About Human Origins

Which of the following is NOT suggested as an adaptation for human endurance running?

Australopiths with small and lightly built faces are known as

The species of large-brained, robust hominins that lived between 1.8 and 0.4 mya is

Primates that walk on two feet are called

Genetic evidence indicates Neandertals were

The oldest human tools were part of which tradition?

The paleoanthropologists who discovered the fossils they called Homo naledi justified classifying the fossils as a variety of early Homo for which reason?

Describe three major differences between the phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibria approaches to interpreting evolution?

The phenotypic pattern that shows how different traits of an organism, responding to different selection pressures, may evolve at different rates is called

The human social and cognitive skills that allowed our ancestors to survive in novel habitats were exapted by H. sapiens to colonize the world.

In light of recent evidence of mobility and mixing among various populations of Neandertals, Denisovans, and anatomically modern humans during the Pleistocene, scientists hypothesize that European Neandertals disappeared because they evolved into anatomically modern people, developing Aurignacian culture as they did so, in line with the regional continuity model.

Some anthropologists have claimed that meat eating was the crucial behavioral change leading to the appearance of early Homo. This story of human origins is called the

Homo erectus finds from Dmanisi, in the Republic of Georgia, appear to show the first hominin species to migrate out of Africa at a date to 1.8 mya.

The bones of the fingers and toes of Au. afarensis are slightly curved, and the toes are much longer than the toes of modern human beings. This suggests to paleoanthropologists that

Organisms that eat a wide range of plant and animal foods are called

Australopiths with rugged jaws, flat faces, and enormous molars are known as

The oldest formally accepted evidence for human occupation in the Americas in found at

The process by which a single species gives rise to a variety of descendent species over time is called

What is the name given to the period of highly elaborate stone-tool traditions in Europe in which blades were important, 40,000-10,300 years ago?

Anatomically modern humans are Hominin fossils assigned to the species Homo sapiens with anatomical features similar to those of living human populations: short and round skulls, small brow ridges and faces, prominent chins, and light skeletal build.