exam 3 questions

Question 1

Fossilized footprints from Tanzania around 3.5 mya were likely made by what species

Answer 1

australopithecus afarensis

Question 2

T/F a narrow, long cyclinder shaped pelvis is a feature associated with bipedal locomotion

Answer 2

FALSE

Question 3

what does collected food mean

Answer 3

food that is gathered from the wild

Question 4

the earliest oldowan tools in East Africa date to approximately how many mya

Answer 4

2.6

Question 5

what species is hypothesized to have potentially buried their dead in caves

Answer 5

homo naledi

Question 6

what species is the Peking Man

Answer 6

homo erectus

Question 7

fossils are formed when

Answer 7

bone is mineralized through natural processes

Question 8

what is the correct order of these time periods: pliocene, miocene, holocene, pleistocene

Answer 8

most recent: holocene
pleistocene
pliocene
oldest: miocene

Question 9

what species is the Taung Child

Answer 9

australopithecus africanus

Question 10

T/F bipedalism may have evolved because it allowed hominins to keep cool in savanna environments

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

Imagine you have found the skull of a hominin with an ape-size brain, sagittal crest, very large molars, and large cheekbones. Based on this information, this is most likely a specimen of

Answer 11

paranthropus

Question 12

what are three fossil candidates for the first hominins

Answer 12

sahelanthropus, orrorin, adripithecus

Question 13

why is ardipithecus apelike

Answer 13

because it had grasping toes

Question 14

orrorin tugenensis is identified as a possible hominin on the basis of what evidence

Answer 14

the femur

Question 15

what is an adaptation of the foot for human bipedality

Answer 15

a stiff, arched foot

Question 16

isotopes are made of the smallest unit of matter called

Answer 16

atoms

Question 17

isotopes differ in their number of

Answer 17

neutrons

Question 18

T/F Longer childhoods allow for learning complex skills required for obtaining high-nutrient foods.

Answer 18

TRUE

Question 19

what is food that comes from things that do not move but are protected in some way requiring some level of processing before they can be eaten

Answer 19

extracted food

Question 20

which hominin dominated Europe around 400,000 years ago evolving into Neanderthals

Answer 20

homo heidelbergensis

Question 21

what is the law of lateral continuity

Answer 21

even when layers of rock are found super far apart, the layers are aged continuously and the approximate age can be found

Question 22

how many mya did the last common ancestor of chimps and humans live

Answer 22

7 - 5 mya

Question 23

T/F australopithecus afarensis was not sexually dimorphic

Answer 23

FALSE lucy was dimorphic

Question 24

what is different about biped femurs

Answer 24

they have a valgus angle

Question 25

T/F neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in the middle east lived side by side for thousands of years

Answer 25

TRUE

Question 26

what is taphonomy

Answer 26

the study of what happened to an organism after it died

Question 27

T/F its likely that the genus homo evolved from the neanderthals

Answer 27

FALSE its likely they evolved from one of the later australopithecines