Exam #4 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What epoch is known as the ice age?
Pleistocene
Archaic homo were widely spread throughout where?
old world-Asia, Europe and Africa
What is the out of Africa hypotheses?
Modern Homo sapiens evolved in Africa, and then spread to Asia and Europe, where modern humans replaced the populations there.
What is the multiregional continuity
The shift to modern humans took place regionally and did not involve replacement.
The regional continuity modern Homo sapiens origins poses that…
Modern humans not appears solely in Africa, pre-modern populations in Europe, Asia, and Africa evolved into modern Homo sapiens, there was Anglo between premodern populations from different regions of the old war
The type of stones tool traditionally associated with anatomically modern humans is called
Aurignaeian
Most anatomically modern humans present:
Reduced brown ridges, vertical forehead, skull well-rounded
The upper Paleolithic culture. Began in Western Europe about _____years ago
40,000 years ago
Until 12,000 years ago living in nomadic groups is commonly associated with
Low chance to develop endemic disease
The last 10,000 years referred to as the
Holocene Epoch
Regarding the neolithic which of the following is true
It is characterized by small villages where the domestication of plants/and or animals took place
This is from foraging to farming
Is along the most important adaptive shifts in hominid evolution
Until when most humans are living as hunter gathers
10,000 ya
In general the frequency of Iron deficiency (as detected in bones by criba orbitalia porotic hyperostosis…) in hunter gatherers is ____when compared with farmers?
Lower
Most populations in eastern North America had adapted corn agriculture, raising dramatically the frequency of
Dental caries
The food we eat and how do we prepare them
Tremendously influence our physical appearance
Iron deficiency anemia results when
The body receives limited iron
The idea that cranial shape can change within the human population of the result of dietary change is referred to as the
Masticatory functional hypothesis
Infectious disease…
Has influence the frequency of certain alleles that affect the immune system
HIV virus is considered a slow virus because
Serious HIV related symptoms may not appear for years
The plague epidemic called black death in the
XIV the century
Kill millions of humans in Europe
The increase of mutant CCR5 protein can be seen as a good example for
Positive natural selection
What kind of evidence can be used to Study a plague epidemic in the past
Historical documents, zooarchaeological samples, pathogen DNA
Most of the archaic Homo lived around?
700,000 -225,000 ya
