Levin, Chapter 17
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Which of the following characters is
not
typical of the Order Primates?
Opposable thumb
Reduction in number of fingers
Reduction in number of teeth
Shortening of skull
Stereoscopic vision
Which continent has monkeys with prehensile tails?
Africa
Asia
Australia
North America
South America
What character distinguishes apes from monkeys?
Grasping hands
Ground-dwelling habit
Long tails
Stereoscopic vision
When did apes first appear?
Eocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Pliocene
Pleistocene
Which of the following characters developed first in human evolution?
Bipedality (upright posture)
Culture and tool making
Loss of heavy brow ridges
Significant brain enlargement
Which species of
Australopithecus
probably gave rise to
Homo
?
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus boisei
Australopithecus robustus
Which human species was the first to leave Africa and colonize much of the Old World?
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus robustus
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Which species of
Homo
was the first to appear?
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Match each "Man" with the description of its significance.
Cro-Magnon Man
Neanderthal Man
Peking Man
Piltdown Man
A famous scientific hoax
Another name for
Homo erectus
First to ceremoniously bury his dead
Painted art in caves of France and Spain
What famous scientist has found evidence that there were habitable refugia along the northern Pacific coast during the Ice Age that humans might have used to first enter North America?
Aristotle
Darwin
Einstein
Sagan
Your own humble professor
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