Exam #4

Question 1

What epoch is known as the ice age?

Answer 1

Pleistocene

Question 2

Archaic homo were widely spread throughout where?

Answer 2

old world-Asia, Europe and Africa

Question 3

What is the out of Africa hypotheses?

Answer 3

Modern Homo sapiens evolved in Africa, and then spread to Asia and Europe, where modern humans replaced the populations there.

Question 4

What is the multiregional continuity

Answer 4

The shift to modern humans took place regionally and did not involve replacement.

Question 5

The regional continuity modern Homo sapiens origins poses that…

Answer 5

Modern humans not appears solely in Africa, pre-modern populations in Europe, Asia, and Africa evolved into modern Homo sapiens, there was Anglo between premodern populations from different regions of the old war

Question 6

The type of stones tool traditionally associated with anatomically modern humans is called

Answer 6

Aurignaeian

Question 7

Most anatomically modern humans present:

Answer 7

Reduced brown ridges, vertical forehead, skull well-rounded

Question 8

The upper Paleolithic culture. Began in Western Europe about _____years ago

Answer 8

40,000 years ago

Question 9

Until 12,000 years ago living in nomadic groups is commonly associated with

Answer 9

Low chance to develop endemic disease

Question 10

The last 10,000 years referred to as the

Answer 10

Holocene Epoch

Question 11

Regarding the neolithic which of the following is true

Answer 11

It is characterized by small villages where the domestication of plants/and or animals took place

Question 12

This is from foraging to farming

Answer 12

Is along the most important adaptive shifts in hominid evolution

Question 13

Until when most humans are living as hunter gathers

Answer 13

10,000 ya

Question 14

In general the frequency of Iron deficiency (as detected in bones by criba orbitalia porotic hyperostosis…) in hunter gatherers is ____when compared with farmers?

Answer 14

Lower

Question 15

Most populations in eastern North America had adapted corn agriculture, raising dramatically the frequency of

Answer 15

Dental caries

Question 16

The food we eat and how do we prepare them

Answer 16

Tremendously influence our physical appearance

Question 17

Iron deficiency anemia results when

Answer 17

The body receives limited iron

Question 18

The idea that cranial shape can change within the human population of the result of dietary change is referred to as the

Answer 18

Masticatory functional hypothesis

Question 19

Infectious disease…

Answer 19

Has influence the frequency of certain alleles that affect the immune system

Question 20

HIV virus is considered a slow virus because

Answer 20

Serious HIV related symptoms may not appear for years

Question 21

The plague epidemic called black death in the

XIV the century

Answer 21

Kill millions of humans in Europe

Question 22

The increase of mutant CCR5 protein can be seen as a good example for

Answer 22

Positive natural selection

Question 23

What kind of evidence can be used to Study a plague epidemic in the past

Answer 23

Historical documents, zooarchaeological samples, pathogen DNA

Question 24

Most of the archaic Homo lived around?

Answer 24

700,000 -225,000 ya

Question 25

Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens

Answer 25

Show mixture of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits

Question 26

When compared with Homo erectus archaic homo has (on average)

Answer 26

Bigger brain volume

Question 27

The majority of Neanderthal fossils have found in

Answer 27

Europe

Question 28

The Pleistocene

Answer 28

Showed periodic advances and retreats of massive continental glaciations