Examining Hominin Evolution: Test for Chapters 3 & 4

Module 2: Test (Chapters 3 & 4) Question 1 1 / 1 pts In the history of the earth, extinction is: overall quite rare always the result of environmental catastropes unknown until the evolution of human beings extremely common Question 2 1 / 1 pts In the photosynthesis pathway employed by most grasses, the uptake of the 13C isotope of carbon is: much less than in the pathways used by trees or succulents about the same as in the pathway used by trees about the same as in the pathway used by succulent plants higher than in the pathways used by trees or succulents Question 3 1 / 1 pts

Paleoanthropologist Tim White and his colleagues view Ardipithecus ramidus as representing: the creature at the base of the hominin line a creature that spent an equal amount of time on the ground and in the trees the creature that gave rise to the australopithecines all of the above Question 4 1 / 1 pts The single most important consideration for placing a 4 million-year-old fossil in the hominin family is: how it walked the size of its brain evidence of a significant reliance on culture evidence of the use of fire Question 5 1 / 1 pts The end of the Miocene is marked by the: extinction of the dinosaurs

appearance of the first hominins appearance of the first apes extinction of most of the ape species Question 6 1 / 1 pts The most significant behavioral distinction that can be made between Homo habilis and the australopithecines is the former’s: bipedal locomotion controlled use of fire use of the wheel reliance on stone tools Question 7 1 / 1 pts In their analysis of the biomechanics of human locomotion, Dennis Bramble and Daniel Lieberman show that human beings are very well adapted for: tree climbing walking long-distance running

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trucking Question 8 1 / 1 pts The australopithecines are placed in the taxonomic family Homininae because they: had large brains made and used tools hunted walked upright Question 9 1 / 1 pts We know that flakes produced in core reduction in the Oldowan technology were used to cut and scrape, as a result of: trace element analysis paleopathology thermoluminescence wear pattern analysis Question 10

1 / 1 pts Habitual bipedalism is a behavioral characteristic typical only for the: hominins pongids anthropoid monkeys modern humans Question 11 1 / 1 pts In comparison to interglacials and interstadials, during glacials and stadials, the amount of 18O in the shells of foraminifera proportional to the amount of 16O: is higher is lower remains the same fluctuates Question 12 1 / 1 pts The location of the region in which Zhoukoudian is located shows that Homo erectus: had boats

could survive in a tropical environment could survive in a place with long, cold winters could live in a desert Question 13 1 / 1 pts The accumulated evidence suggests that Homo erectus subsistence was based on: a mixture of scavenging, hunting, and gathering wild plants foods fishing and shellfish collecting herding agriculture Question 14 1 / 1 pts The significance of the cave at Zhoukoudian rests in its having produced: the first evidence of tool use in Asia the first evidence of hominins in East Asia evidence of the contemporaneity of Homo habilis and Homo erectus

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a large sample of more than forty Homo erectus individuals Question 15 1 / 1 pts In the production of an Acheulean handaxe, numerous stone flakes were produced. Wear pattern analysis has shown that these flakes: are simply waste and served no further function were buried with the dead, implying the use of symbols among these hominins were used as cutting and scraping tools were placed on arrow shafts and used in hunting Question 16 1 / 1 pts Where were the very recent specimens of Homo erectus dating to 50,000 years ago found? the island of Java the island of Flores India Australia

Question 17 1 / 1 pts Compared to the crania of Homo erectus specimens found in Africa, the Dmanisi crania are: rounder less robust smaller older Question 18 1 / 1 pts Compared to the skull of Homo habilis, the skull of Homo erectus is: very similar in form, but larger less prognathous, with a steeper forehead and larger cranial capacity more symmetrical less neotonous Question 19 1 / 1 pts The hominin fossils found at the Dmanisi site are interpreted by some researchers as: early examples of Homo habilis outside of Africa

the earliest evidence of Homo erectus outside of Africa ancestral Neandertals there are no hominin fossils at the site, only stone tools that may or may not have been made by Homo erectus Question 20 1 / 1 pts Below the skull, the Homo erectus skeleton is: essentially ape-like essentially monkey-like essentially human-like no post-cranial bones of Homo erectus have been found Quiz Score: 20 out of 20 Previous Next

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