Question 1

In Go North Young Hominid the stone tools that were found on the Happisburgh coastline were dated to 1.2mya based on the reversal of the earth's magnetic field.

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False

Question 2

The first evidence of modern human traits, including increasing brain size and dependence on material culture, shows up in:

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Homo habilis.

Question 3

The Homo erectus fossil from Sangiran, Java, dates to:

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1.8 - 1.6 mya.

Question 4

Based on height calculations of Homo erectus fossils, physical anthropologists estimate that their average height was:

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tall, with males about five feet nine and females about five feet three.

Question 5

The discoverer of the original Homo erectus in Asia was:

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Eug&egrave;ne Dubois

Question 6

Southern and eastern African sites dating to 2.5 mya show habitats indicating:

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a more frequent use of tools for the digging and processing of roots and tubers.

Question 7

Homo erectus's cranial capacity:

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?

Question 8

The first hominid to migrate beyond Africa was:

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Homo erectus

Question 9

The Nariokotome Boy discovered at Lake Turkana (Homo erectus) has modern human traits such as:

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shorter arms and longer legs than those of earlier hominids.

Question 10

Modern anatomical features of the Nariokotome Boy include:

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relatively short arms and long legs

Question 11

Compared to earlier hominids the increased body size in Homo erectus is likely due to:

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increased protein in the diet.

Question 12

Homo erectus's high degree of adaptive success is evidenced by its:

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increased reliance on material culture.   reliance on unchanging environments.  both a. and b.

Question 13

The earliest fossil evidence for Homo erectus in Western Europe dates from:

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1.2 mya, from Sima del Elefante.

Question 14

The original genus name for Homo erectus was:

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Pithecanthropus.

Question 15

In First of Our Kind Lee Berger proposes that the immediate ancestor of H. erectus is very likely

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A. sediba

Question 16

The earliest fossil evidence of Homo erectus in Western Europe dates to about:

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1.2 mya.

Question 17

Fossil evidence of cutmarks made with stone tools at early hominid sites suggests that:

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meat eating started before Homo erectus but increased with more advanced technology.

Question 18

Gran Dolina adult hominids were similar to later Homo sapiens in their:

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wide nasal apertures.

Question 19

As reported in What's Cooking? there is unequivocal archaeological evidence going back to the beginning of Homo erectus that this hominid had fire.

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False

Question 20

Greater body size and facial gracility documented in Homo erectus are likely related to:

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changes in tool technology and increasing access to meat and other proteins.

Question 21

Which species became increasingly specialized to foods requiring heavy chewing?

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Australopithecus

Question 22

Homo rudolfensis is morphologically most similar to:

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Homo habilis.

Question 23

Anatomical evidence from fossilized hand bones suggests that the precision grip needed to make and use stone tools was present:

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in Homo habilis and some australopithecines

Question 24

As reported in What's Cooking? Richard Wrangham has concluded that humanity's biology, anatomy, and behavior and its cultural invention of controlling fire and cooking food are coeval, meaning occurred at the same time.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 25

The Dmanisi B fossils from the Republic of Georgia are dated to:

Accepted Answer

1.7 mya

Question 26

As reported by Kate Wong in First of Our Kind which of the following is true of the A. sediba fossils?

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? -not while the brain is small, there is an expanded frontal region

Question 27

In Go North Young Hominid Chris Stringer is quoted as saying that the toolmakers of Happisburgh

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1:may have been related to Homo antecessor of Atapuerca, Spain.2: may have hung on after a larger population who came in an earlier, warmer period had left and gone south.3: could not have been Homo erectus or Homo floresiensis. all of the above

Question 28

The Acheulean complex:

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emerged around 1.5 mya.

Question 29

In What's Cooking? it is reported that Homo erectus

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1:had a brain size that would have required cooked food to support the high calories needed to power it.2: had a narrow pelvis and rib cage and therefore a small gut that would not have been large enough to digest a raw diet.3: hunted and cooked meat for more calories than a plant based diet could provide. was the first human at 1.8mya because of fire and cooking all of the above

Question 30

Homo habilis had traits that include:

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short legs

Question 31

The many stone tools, fragmentary animal bones, and teeth found at Gran Dolina, Spain, indicate that hominids there:

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processed and consumed animals including other hominids.

Question 32

Homo erectus fossils date to:

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1.8 mya-300,000 mya.

Question 33

Bruce Bower reports that Happisburgh, England in the time period that Parfitt's team has studied was characterized by all the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

? - not similar in summer temp and colder in winter than it it in that area today

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