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ANT2511L_Detwiler_CYU14.1 Check Your Understanding 14.1 ➢ Name (First and Last): ➢ Date: 11/19/23 Instructions : Type the answers for each question. It is optional to type out the question. Example : Example format for questions and answers. 1. Question: What is your favorite color? a. Answer: Green Directions : Use the format above to type the answer. 1. Where were the earliest members of our genus found Answer: Ethiopia 2. What is the name of the earliest member of the genus Homo? Answer: Homo habilis 3. Why was it given that species name? Answer: Homo habilis roughly translates from the Latin as “handy man,” because of its presumed association with stone tools. 4. Why do some researchers think that more than one species is present in the material originally attributed to the species Homo habilis? Answer: Because specimen KNMER1470, as well as some others, is too distinct to be a member of the same species. 5. List a few features that differentiate Homo habilis from Australopithecus africanus. Answer: Higher cranium, more rounded cranium, and a more vertical face (less prognathic, more orthognathic) 6. What is the name of the earliest stone tool technology. Answer: Oldowan tools 7. On which continent are all members of Homo habilis found? Answer: Africa 8. What is the name of the species of Homo to follow Homo habilis? Answer: Homo erectus 9. What is its approximate time range? Answer: Homo erectus existed from about 1.9 million years ago to as recently as about 150,000 years ago 10. In what major regions of the world are its remains found?

ANT2511L_Detwiler_CYU14.1 Answer: Various regions of Africa, Western Asia, and East Asia 11. List a few of the features that differentiate it from Homo habilis. Answer: Thicker bone, a longer/lower skull, a shorter face, less postorbital constriction and a receding forehead. 12. What are three important behavioral advances of Homo erectus? Answer: Three important advances of Homo Erectus were they were the first humans known to have modern, humanlike body propor-tions, They have the capacity for more flexible behavior probably contributed to their ability to survive in a variety of habitats and climates, allowing them to venture far from their native Africa, as well as their stone tool technology, which, far surpassed that of Oldowan tools. 13. What is the name of the tool technology associated with Homo erectus, and what is the most common type of tool found? Answer: Their stone tool technology is called the Acheulean, the most common tool found is a large, bifaced, often tear-drop-shaped tool—the hand axe. 14. Which is the earliest species of hominin to be found outside of Africa? Answer: Homo georgicus

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