Question 1

Match between columns
                        Premises: Homo
natural selection
adaptation
evolution
hominoid

Accepted Answer

The Answer of group of primates that includes all living is...

Question 2

The hypothesis that modern human originated through a process of simultaneous local transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens throughout the inhabited world is called the _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis 
B) acculturation hypothesis 
C) recent African origins hypothesis 
D) diffusion theory 
E) multiregional hypothesis

Question 3

Australopithecine fossils have been found in all of the following modern-day areas except _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) Malawi 
B) South Africa 
C) Kenya 
D) Chad 
E) Egypt

Question 4

Which of the following anthropologists combated against the evaluation of humans by race?

Accepted Answer

A) Carolus Linneaus,Franz Boas 
B) Carlton Coon,Franz Boas 
C) Ashley Montagu,Carlton Coon 
D) Franz Boas,Ashley Montagu 
E) Johann Blumenbach,Ashley Montagu

Question 5

Where did Jane Goodall begin her studies of chimpanzees?

Accepted Answer

A) Tai Rainforest 
B) Gombe,Tanzania 
C) Karisoke,Rwanda 
D) Olduvai Gorge,Kenya 
E) Tokyo,Japan

Question 6

One of the most hotly debated genetic relationships in paleoanthropology is the connection between modern humans and:

Accepted Answer

A) Homo antecessor 
B) Homo Sapiens 
C) Neandertals 
D) Homo erectus 
E) Mousterian Tool Bearers

Question 7

Which Western anthropologist was the first to encourage the study of Great Ape culture in the wild?

Accepted Answer

A) Dian Fossey 
B) Louis Leakey 
C) Frans Boas 
D) Bronislaw Malinowski 
E) Jane Goodall

Question 8

The concept of race is ____________________ .

Accepted Answer

A) exclusive 
B) expressive 
C) arbitrary 
D) scientific 
E) proven

Question 9

Which of the following is not considered a "disease of civilization"?

Accepted Answer

A) diabetes 
B) tuberculosis 
C) cancer 
D) high blood pressure 
E) heart disease

Question 10

Which of the following is not a true statement?

Accepted Answer

A) A biped can see more effectively than a quadruped. 
B) A biped has less body area exposed to direct sunlight than a quadruped. 
C) A biped can use its hands to carry objects,including weapons. 
D) A biped runs faster than a quadruped. 
E) None of the above is a true statement.

Question 11

Which of the following study living primates?

Accepted Answer

A) paleontologists 
B) paleoanthropologists 
C) primatologists 
D) evolutionologists 
E)  geologists

Question 12

In comparison to other mammals,primates have ________________.

Accepted Answer

A) more pre-molars 
B) fewer pre-molars 
C) more incisors 
D) more canines 
E) more molars

Question 13

Increased meat consumption by our early ancestors was important to human evolution.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The shift from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens occurred within the ________________.

Accepted Answer

A) Pliocene 
B) Oligocene 
C) Miocene 
D) Eocene 
E) Pleistocene

Question 15

The greatest single cache of hominin fossils in the world was found at _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) Hadar in Ethiopia 
B) Lauricocha in Peru 
C) Olduvai Gorge in Kenya 
D) Chevraux in France 
E) Atapuerca in Spain

Question 16

Which of the following tool makers invented the burin,which came into common use in the Upper Paleolithic?

Accepted Answer

A) Mousterian Toolmakers 
B)  Neandertal Toolmakers 
C)  Gibeon Toolmakers 
D)  Homo habilis Toolmakers 
E)  Oldowan Toolmakers

Question 17

The ability to see the world in the three dimensions of height,width,and depth is due to primates' unique development of _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) color vision 
B) binocular color vision 
C) stereoscopic color vision 
D) binocular stereoscopic color vision 
E) binocular vision

Question 18

Which Swedish naturalist divided the human species into four major groups according to geographic area,classifying all Europeans as white,Africans as black,American Indians as red,Asians as yellow?

Accepted Answer

A) Linnaeus 
B) Blumenbach 
C) Wolpoff 
D) Caspari 
E) Caucaus

Question 19

George Armelagos argues that the first major decline in human health occurred with the earliest human village settlements.

Accepted Answer