Chapter 1 Vocab.

Question 1

nominin

Answer 1

family of species that includes homosapiens and it’s ancestors of the passed 6-7 million years

Question 2

bipedal

Answer 2

walking upright on two legs, one skill among others that distinguishes nominins from apes

Question 3

australopithecines

Answer 3

several species of the earliest bipedal nominins (now extinct) whose remains have been found in Africa

Question 4

paleoanthropologist

Answer 4

a scientist concerned with the study of human evolution and the physical and behavioral characteristics of early humans and their ancestors

Question 5

paleolithic

Answer 5

• old stone age
• 2.5 million years ago
• nonminin species first started making stone tools
• humans started experimenting with agriculture 12,000 years ago

Question 6

ice age

Answer 6

any geological epoch, most recently the Pleistocene era (1.6 million years ago) glaciers covered large part of world’s surface

Question 7

interglacials

Answer 7

a period of global warming, retreating glaciers between ice ages. current ice age, holocene, an interglacial.

Question 8

collective learning

Answer 8

process of humans accumulating and sharing complex knowledge and transmit it from one generation go the next

Question 9

microlith

Answer 9

small blade of flaked stone used as a tool