Chapter 16

Question 0

binocular vision

Answer 0

primates’ eyes are protected by bony eye sockets, which created an overlapping field of vision

Question 1

opposable first digit

Answer 1

a thumb or great toe

Question 2

diurnal

Answer 2

primates who are active during the day

Question 3

nocturnal

Answer 3

primates who are active at night and only see in black and white

Question 4

arboreal

Answer 4

tree-dwelling animals

Question 5

anthropoids

Answer 5

a group of large-brained, diurnal monkeys and hominoids

Question 6

prehensile tail

Answer 6

functions like a fifth limb

Question 7

hominins

Answer 7

human like primates that appear to be more closely related to present-day humNd than they are to present-day chimps and bonobos

Question 8

hominoids

Answer 8

include all non monkey anthropoids

Question 9

bipedal

Answer 9

animals that can walk upright on two legs

Question 10

australopithecines

Answer 10

Lived in the east-central & southern parts of Africa between 4.2 and 1 m.y.a. Small and had apelike brains and jaws

Question 11

homo

Answer 11

a genus which includes living and extinct

Question 12

neanderthals

Answer 12

evolved exclusively in Europe and Asia about 200,000 years ago; likely from H. erectus for a homo intermidiary

Question 13

cro-magnons

Answer 13

Early modern humans who were the first to fish, tailor clothing, and domesticate animals. Represent beginning of hunter-gatherer societies