a series of distinctive anatomical traits that contrast with archaic traits from earlier hominins.
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Broken Hill, Dali, and Atapuerca are sites where specimens of _________ have been discovered.
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archaic Homo sapiens
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Archaic Homo sapiens:
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shows a mixture of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits.
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To date, the majority of Neandertal fossils have been found in:
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Europe.
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The last Neandertals date to:
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32,000 yBP
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Analyses of modern human genetic variation indicate that Homo sapiens may have evolved approximately:
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200,000 yBP.
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The Denisova fossils likely:
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share a common ancestor with Neandertals.
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Anatomically modern human fossils were discovered in the European Upper Paleolithic site of:
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Cro-Magnon, France.
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The Multiregional Continuity hypothesis supposes that:
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the transition to modernity took place regionally and without involving replacement.
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The oldest Neandertal site dates to __________, at __________.
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130,000 yBP; Krapina, Croatia
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The Middle Paleolithic is associated with _________ tools which Neandertals produced.
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Mousterian
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The Upper Paleolithic is associated with the_________ method of stone tool production:
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Levallois
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The best fossil evidence to suggest that Neandertals could produce a language like that of modern humans comes from which bone(s) collected at Kebara, Israel?
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the hyoid
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Painted perforated shells are evidence that Neandertals:
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used body ornaments, used symbolism.
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Compared to modern Homo sapiens, archaic Homo sapiens have:
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a taller and wider nasal aperture, a more projecting occipital bone, larger teeth, and no chin.
a longer and lower skull, a larger browridge, and a bigger and more projecting face.
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The Neandertals' disappearance after 30,000 yBP likely resulted from:
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their assimilation.
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The discovery of modern/archaic hybrid fossils supports which model of modern human origins?
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Assimilation
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The fossils called Homo floresiensis were dated to:
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18,000 yBP.
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A distinctive trait of people from East Asia and the Americas is:
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shovel-shaped incisors.
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Early Native Americans used which distinctive fluted spear points to hunt large-bodied Ice Age mammals?
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Folsom points
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Allen's and Bergmann's rules are perfect examples of natural selection working to bring about anatomical adaptations to environments in mammals. These include:
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the limb and trunk proportions of Neandertals.
the limb and trunk proportions of modern human populations.
the limb and trunk proportions of most mammals.
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Sub-Saharan Africans show the largest genetic diversity of any human population. This is likely to have resulted from:
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the accumulations of genetic mutations over time.
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The most distinctive traits about the cold adaptation complex of Neandertals are:
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the body and the length of the arms and legs.
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The transition to fully modern Homo sapiens was completed globally by about:
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25,000 yBP.
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The out-of-Africa model explains:
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a single origin of modern people and eventual replacement of archaic Homo sapiens throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Neanderthal brains are markedly smaller than modern human brains.
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False
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Neanderthals were an evolutionary dead end—they and their genetic code are extinct.
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False
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Archaic Homo sapiens emerge from late Homo erectus and show several transitional features between H. erectus and H. sapiens sapiens.
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True
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The Denisovans are just another evolutionary dead end and do not inform us about the diversity of modern humans.
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False
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