Ch. 12

Question 1

Modern humans likely migrated to the Americas via

Answer 1

Walking across the Bering land bridge.

Question 2

Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules are perfect examples of natural selection’s effects on anatomical adaptions to environments in mammals. These include the limb and trunk proportions of:

Answer 2

Neanderthals, modern human populations, and most mammals

Question 3

The last Neanderthal dates to:

Answer 3

32,000 yBP

Question 4

Painted perforated shells are evidence that Neanderthals

Answer 4

Both b and c

Question 5

Traits of anatomically modern humans include

Answer 5

An average brain capacity of 1,500 cc

Question 6

To date, the majority of Neanderthals fossils have been found in

Answer 6

Europe and Western Asia

Question 7

A homed fossil has a low long skull, projecting face and occipital bond and large nasal aperture these are all?

Answer 7

Archaic characteristics

Question 8

A distinctive trait of people from east Asia and the Americas is:

Answer 8

Shovel shaped incisors

Question 9

The Herto skulls from Ethiopia:

Answer 9

Have a combination of archaic and modern features

Question 10

Modern humans have

Answer 10

B and c

Question 11

The earliest modern humans in Australia dating 40-50,000 yBP, were found

Answer 11

Lake Mungo

Question 12

Archaic Homo sapiens

Answer 12

Shows a mixture of homo Erectus and Homo sapiens traits

Question 13

The most distinctive traits about the cold adaptions complex of Neanderthals are.

Answer 13

The body and the length of the arms and legs

Question 14

The middle Paleolithic is associated with Tools

Answer 14

Mousterain

Question 15

Modem H. Sapiens differ from the archaic form in havin

Answer 15

All the above

Question 16

Which tool indicates that H. Sapiens began eating a new type of food?

Answer 16

Harpoon

Question 17

Sub-Saharan Africans show the largest genetic diversity of any humans population. This is likely to have resulted from the

Answer 17

Accumulations of genetic mutations over time

Question 18

The multi regional continuity model of the origin of modern human states that

Answer 18

Gene flow is the key to evolution, turning archaic H. Sapiens into modern humans in various parts of the world

Question 19

Neanderthal remain have been recovered from all of the following locations Except

Answer 19

Omo, Ethiopia

Question 20

Analyses of modern human genetic variation indicate that H. Sapiens may have evolved approximately

Answer 20

200,000 yBP

Question 21

A valid critique of the out-of-Africa model of human evolution based on recent research is that

Answer 21

There was gene flow between Neanderthals and modern H. Sapiens

Question 22

The levallois method of stone tool production is associated with the:

Answer 22

Mousterin

Question 23

Neanderthals were all adapted to cold , owing to body charges such as

Answer 23

All of the above

Question 24

A ME asserts confidently that the deceased was Asian or Native American ancestry. How did she know?

Answer 24

Shovel shaped incisors, a heritable trait often found in East Asians.

Question 25

Neanderthals remains from Shanidar cave in northern Iraq provide the first evidence of

Answer 25

Care for the injured

Question 26

In Atapeura 5, early archaic Homo sapiens and Neanderthal specimens show heavy wear on the incisors and canines indicating

Answer 26

The use of the front teeth for gripping materials

Question 27

The most distinctive traits about the cold adaptions complex of Neanderthals are:

Answer 27

The body and length of the arms and legs

Question 28

Human beings arrived in America when?

Answer 28

15,000 yBP