Exam 4: Human Evolution

What continents were joined in the supercontinent of Laurasia?

The _____________________ is an opening in the base of the skull found in vertebrates.

The 32,000 year-old images of Chavet Cave in France are associated with the Upper Paleolithic.

Which of the following best represents Mousterian tools?

For a hominoid fossil to be definitively classified as part of the human evolutionary line there must be certain evidence of:

Scientists date the split between human ancestors and the ancestors of African apes between:

How does the spinal column differ between an adult human and a chimpanzee?

Discoverers of Homo sapiens idaltu have used this fossil evidence to argue that Neandertal is part of the direct line of Homo sapiens sapiens.

On a human skull, how is the foramen magnum positioned in order to demonstrate bipedalism?

All of the following advantages are conferred by obsidian except:

Which hominid was the first believed to use fire?

What is the primary problem with the "Man the Hunter" theory of human evolution from the 1960s and 70s?

Describe the Oldowan Tool Tradition.

Which of the following hominids is believed to be the first toolmaker as evidenced by the current fossil record?

Bipedalism confers each of the following advantages over quadrupeds except:

The Recent African Origins Hypothesis is also called the _______________ Hypothesis.

For a hominoid fossil to be definitively classified as human there must be evidence of ______________.

The _______________ is a stone tool with chisel-like edges.

Humans sometimes scavenged food, but they were not known as tertiary scavengers.

What significant event occurred during the Miocene?