Anthropology Midterm: Human Evolution

1. Humans evolved from:

2. Differentiate between monkeys and apes:

3. Which of the following species is the most genetically variable?

4. Bipedalism produced

5. Chimps and humans can be similar in:

1. Compared to other primates, the human brain is:

2. Compared to apes, the human brain:

3. In humans:

4. In humans:

5. In humans hands:

1. Darwin said that:

2. The genetic school of the first third of the XXth century declared that:

3. According to the modern synthesis (Neodarwinism):

4. Genetic drift:

5. Which of the following is true?

1. Homebox genes:

Heterochrony

Epigenetics

4. Horizontal gene transfer:

1. As primates evolved from African ancestors, humans are:

2. Strepsirhini and Haplorhini are differentiated by the following features except one. Spot the wrong one:

3. Behavioral ecology shows that in primates, the following adaptation produces the largest group size:

4. For primates between 5-35 kg which is their main food?

1. In primates, males compete for:

2. Which of the following reproductive strategies is informally the most common among primates?

3. Sexual dimorphism can be expressed through the following features but one. Which one?

4. What is the most common reproductive strategy among most terrestrial primates living in open biomes with high predation?

1. Which answer(s) is(are) right?

2. Most Miocene apes were:

3. We inherited from Miocene apes:

4. The habitats of most Miocene apes and the last common ancestor with chimpanzees were:

What anatomical features are commonly used to identify a hominin?

2. Select what is correct for Ardipithecus ramidus:

3. What is the "obstetric dilemma"?

4. Bipedalism became selected because:

1. The interval between 3 and 2 million years ago creates which of the following evolutionary processes?

2. Which of the following statements is correct for the processes operating between 3 and 2 million years ago?

3. How can early Homo be identified?

1. Australopithecines are:

2. Australopithecus afarensis:

3. which is (are) correct for australopithecines?

4. The Laetoli footprints show:

What are early archaeological sites?

The hunting-scavenging debate has shown that early humans were:

The limb anatomy of Homo erectus was remodeled compared to previous hominins in order to:

1. Which of the following selects positively for body size and shape?

2. With whom did cannibalism enter human evolution?

3. When did hominins reach Asia?

4. Which of these features define Homo erectus in Asia?

In the last million years of human evolution, which of the following statements is (are) correct?

2. What is a Denisovan?

3. How can the size and shape of the anatomies of the co-evolving African and Eurasian hominins be best explained?

1. When did the ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans live?

2. Which of the following is correct to describe Neanderthals?

3. Neanderthals:

4. Neanderthals were also:

5. The impact of Neanderthal DNA on us is reflected in:

1. Which of the following does not define Homo sapiens?

2. Genetic and paleontological evidence show that Homo sapiens entered Europe at

3. Which of these processes apply to Eurasian Homo sapiens?

4. Why is there so much variation in Homo sapiens?

When did H. sapiens enter America?

1. Spot the true statement regarding ape energetics:

2. Total energy expenditure (TEE) is:

3. Please select the decreasing order of hominids according to their capability of storing fat:

4. Why was fat storage selected for?

5. what is the essential human diet?

6. When was cooking adopted by humans?

8. Select the correct option(s):

4. In modern human mate selection, males and females choose as most important:

5. What predicts people´s mate preferences best?

6. As an example of foragers, the Agta distribute food following which order of importance?

7. select which is(are) right: