Hominins

Question 1

Valgus Angle

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The angle of the femur with the pelvis

Question 2

Formen Magnum

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The hole at the bottom of the skull where the spine meets the skull

Question 3

Zygomatic Arch

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The bone around the side of the cheek that protects the chewing muscle

Question 4

Saggital Crest

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The bone ridge top center of the skull that attaches to the chewing muscles

Question 5

Occipital Bun

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Bulge at the back of the skull, seen in many neanderthals, also in some modern humans, function unknown

Question 6

Shovel Shaped Incisor

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are incisors whose lingual surfaces are scooped

Question 7

Oldowan

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is the archaeological term used to refer to the earliest stone tool industry in prehistory

Question 8

Acheulean Handaxe

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the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with early humans during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, and Europe.

Question 9

Movis Line

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A line geographically where early humans did not use tools

Question 10

Out of Africa 1

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First group of early humans to leave africa

Question 11

Out of Africa 2

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Replacement, multiregional evolution - gene flow, asserts that genetic variation is a measure of ancient population size. ancient people belong to many species

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Multi-Regionalism

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Modern humans originated from earlier populations in more than one region,
Genetic variation is the result of forces other than population size.
Ancient people belonged to only one species connected by gene flow

Question 13

Laetoll

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a site in Tanzania, dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its hominin footprints, preserved in volcanic ash (Site G). The site of the Laetoli footprints is located 45 km south of Olduvai gorge. Excavated by archaeologists Louis and Mary Leaky, the site is famous for its hominin footprints, preserved in volcanic ash and unearthed in 1978

Question 14

Hadar

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the first discovery of the remains of Lucy, a three million year old fossilised specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.

Question 15

Zhoukoudian

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is a cave system in Beijing, China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man

Question 16

Sima de los Huesos

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site in the Atapuerca complex contain the skeletal remains of 28 individuals in small mud breccias under an accumulation of the cave bear

Question 17

Shanidar cave

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yielded the first adult Neanderthal skeletons in Iraq, dating between 60–80,000 years BP

Question 18

lucy

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several hundred pieces of bone representing about 40% of the skeleton of an individual Australopithecus afarensis. The specimen was discovered in 1974 at Hadar in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago

Question 19

Nariokotome Boy

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a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid who died in the early Pleistocene. This specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found. It is 1.5 million years old

Question 20

Kabwe Broken Hill

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(Rhodesian man) is a hominin species described from the fossil Kabwe skull. Other morphologically-comparable remains have been found from the same, or earlier, time period in southern Africa