Exam 10: Early Hominin Origins and Evolution: the Roots of Humanity

Speech, advanced cognition, and complex material culture:

The first recognizable ancestors of the lineage leading to humans include:

The diversity of the hominins included increasingly specialized:

Ecological evidence from the site where Ardi was found shows that:

The earliest hominins probably lived in which kind of environment?

Using tools and tool making is an adaptation by hominins as a result of:

Hominins have canines that are:

The Laetoli footprints demonstrate that the foot of Australopithecus afarensis was humanlike in having:

The earliest australopithecines first show up in the fossil record more than:

Which of the following is an adaptive characteristic of bipedalism?

Evidence indicating that Orrorin tugenensis was bipedal comes mainly from which part of the skeleton?

The foundational behavior of Hominini was:

What was the Piltdown Man? Why was it significant?

The adaptive radiation of the australopithecines after their split from the lineage that led to early Homo seems to have focused on _________.

Owen Lovejoy's Provisioning hypothesis proposes that:

In East Africa robust australopithecines are also called:

Ardi's intermediate form of bipedality included the use of:

The discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops was important mainly because:

Australopithecus robustus was likely the longest-surviving species of australopithecine in South Africa. It had:

Which of the following is a derived trait of Sahelanthropus tchandensis?