Exam 22: Human Evolution

If you run marathons and develop very strong leg muscles,and then your children are born with very strong leg muscles,this would support whose mechanism for evolutionary change?

Does the spine of both a human and chimpanzee exit the skull in the same manner?

The oldest fossils to be designated Homo sapiens are the Cro-Magnons.

The wings of birds and insects are _____________ structures.

To study recent evolutionary events,researchers use mitochondrial DNA sequences because mitochondrial DNA changes occur frequently.

Closer biochemical structures suggest a closer evolutionary relationship.

The early Earth's atmosphere was not the same as it is today.

We do not have any fossils of unicellular prokaryotes.The first organisms to appear in the fossil record are unicellular eukaryotes.

What type of evidence for evolution would arise from a comparison of the DNA sequence of humans and monkeys?

All vertebrate forelimbs are the same in that they are used for the same form of locomotion.

What is the earliest fossil hominin?

What evidence contributed to the formulation of the RNA-first hypothesis?

Homo habilis was the first hominid to use fire.

Which of the following is inconsistent with what is known about Homo erectus?

Which of the following is not a species within the genus Homo?

The flipper of a whale and the wing of a bird are homologous structures.

Place these in the correct order from least related to humans to most closely related to humans.1.new world monkeys; 2.gibbons; 3.lemurs; 4.gorillas; 5.chimpanzees

What was the energy source Miller used in his 1953 experiment to replicate Earth's early environment?

What did Darwin conclude from the observation that there are no rabbits in South America?