Exam 2: Human Evolution

Compare and contrast the multiregional and replacement models for the spread of modern Homo sapiens. What are the testable implications of each?

Origin myths account for the ways in which supernatural forces and beings fashioned the world and all the living things.

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

Scientific evidence indicates that the earliest hominids were not bipedal.

Upper Paleolithic hunters increased the power and accuracy of their projectiles by using:

A new fossil discovery by Maeve Leakey has caused rethinking of early hominid evolution. Discuss Kenyanthropus platyops and state your opinion on where this discovery may fit into the hominid evolutionary tree.

The first hominid to take advantage of the controlled usage of fire was:

The term "composite tool" refers to an artifact made by:

The order Primates, to which humans belong, arose about 67 million years ago.

Evidence for the lifestyle of Cro-Magnon people comes from:

The theory of evolution by natural selection was proposed by:

Upper Paleolithic people of Europe produced ivory sculptures and mural paint?ings.

One factor that contributed to the demise (extinction) of the Neandertals was the fact that dinosaur hunting was extremely dangerous and many individuals were killed in the pursuit of these animals.

Upper Paleolithic people gathered plants to supplement their food resources.

The Acheulian stone tool technology is associated with which early hominid?