Exam 12: The Origins, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People

The earliest archaeological evidence of humans in Australia is from _______, dating to _______.

To date, the majority of Neandertal fossils have been found in:

The Neandertals' disappearance after 30,000 yBP likely resulted from their:

The discovery of modern/archaic hybrid fossils supports which model of modern human origins?

Anatomically modern human fossils were discovered in the European Upper Paleolithic site of:

The Herto skulls from Ethiopia:

Broken Hill, Dali, and Atapuerca are sites where specimens of _______ have been discovered.

According to John Relethford, the most likely reasons for modern humans to have migrated out of Africa during the late Pleistocene include:

The Homo floresiensis specimen:

Analyses of modern human genetic variation indicate that Homo sapiens may have evolved approximately:

Traits of anatomically modern humans include:

Discuss the two models of modern human origins-out-of-Africa and multiregional continuity.Briefly describe their main tenets and discuss how the more recent assimilation model differs from each.

The best fossil evidence to suggest that Neandertals could produce a language like that of modern humans comes from which bone(s) collected at Kebara, Israel?

Early Native Americans used which distinctive fluted spear points to hunt large-bodied Ice Age mammals?

The most distinctive traits about the cold adaptation complex of Neandertals are:

Allen's and Bergmann's rules are perfect examples of natural selection's effects on anatomical adaptations to environments in mammals.These include the limb and trunk proportions of:

Painted perforated shells are evidence that Neandertals:

The morphology of the Paleoindian skull from Kennewick indicates that it:

The people represented by the Denisova fossils likely:

Neandertals' cold-adapted traits include: