Exam 2: Human Evolution

In the religious tradition of Taoism, the spiritual and material sources for the origins of humans are the opposite forces of yin (female) and yang (male).

What made Homo erectus different from earlier and later members of the genus Homo? Compare and contrast the physical and cultural aspects of Homo erectus with those of Homo habilis and Homo sapiens.

On any continent, the people living nearest the equator are the most likely to have dark skin.

Upper Paleolithic hunters increased the power and accuracy of their projectiles by using which of the following?

Describe the specific changes in chipped stone tools that characterized the evolution of technology from the Oldowan to the Acheulian, Mousterian, and Upper Paleolithic periods.

What was the stone tool industry associated with Neandertal populations called?

Archaeologists believe that the first humans came to the New World from __________.

How are archaeological cultures defined?

__________ were responsible for abstract and naturalistic paintings of animals produced during the Upper Paleolithic.

The climate characteristic of environments occupied by Neandertals was __________.

Compare and contrast the models for the evolution of modern Homo sapiens. Include the multiregional evolutionary, replacement, and hybridization and assimilation models in your answer. Which do you think is best supported by the available evidence, and why?

The family of mammals known as primates, to which humans belong, arose about 67 million years ago.

At the 15,000-year-old site at Mezhirich in the Ukraine, archaeologists have excavated the remains of five shelters made from which of the following?

The term "composite tool" refers to an artifact made by __________.

Which was the first hominin to take advantage of the controlled usage of fire?

The Upper Paleolithic period, which dates from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, was characterized by which of the following?

Respond to this hypothetical example of evolution: A population of peppered moths contains individuals ranging from ones that are mostly black to ones that are mostly white. The moths that are easily seen on the barks of trees get eaten by birds. If soot from coal-burning factories makes tree trunks darker in color, then there will be __________.

Burins are special projectile points for hunting large game like mammoths.

How can we explain the variation in physical characteristics of modern humans? Use the example of skin pigmentation to illustrate your answer.

The __________ model of hominin evolution suggests that the gradual evolution of Homo erectus into modern human (Homo sapiens) populations took place in different regions of the Old World, not in one area of the world.