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During the ___________mammals replaced reptiles as the dominant form of land vertebrate. a. Cenozoic b. Paleozoic c. Mesozoic d. Precambrian e. Permian What are Monotremes? a. marsupials b. viviparous reptiles c. egg-laying fish d. placental mammals e. egg-laying mammals Answer: […]

All researchers agree that Sahelanthropus is a definite hominin. The 3.7 million year old footprints of two hominids were discovered in a riverbed in Texas. Answer: False The anthropological perspective proposes to broaden our viewpoint though time and space. Answer: […]

Physical anthropologists do NOT view culture as a human adaptive strategy. The phyum chordate includes all animals with a never cord, gill slits, and supporting cord along the back. Answer: True Neandertals are a fully separate biological species from modern […]

Creationism is considered a science because it has testable hypotheses. Recent analyses have shown that the mtDNA from fossil modern human skeletons is somewhat limited because mtDNA is a fairly small segment of DAN, and is transmitted between generations as […]

Where was Sahelanthropus discovered? a. South Africa b. East Africa c. the Rift Valley d. Central Africa e. Asia Adaptive niche refers to a. an adaptive advantages in a purely terrestrial environment. b. mammalian characteristics which evolved from an arboreal […]

Some of the deliberate nonhuman primate behaviors that serve as communication include all of the following except a. spoken language b. facial expressions c. vocalizations d. displays e. relationships Neandertal crania are characterized by which of the following? a. small, […]

What is paleoanthropology? a. It is defined as the study of early humans. b. It is practiced by archaeologists ONLY. c. It is concerned with fossilized skeletal remains ONLY. d. It is defined as the study of fossilized non-primate mammals. […]

One interpretation of the genetic evidence is that the intermixing of the Neandertal and the modern human lineages a. never occurred b. occurred between 2 million and 1 million years ago c. occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago d. […]

Thermoluminescence dates a. Water-logged artifacts b. bone c. wood d. burned flint tools e. thatch Which of the following would be best suited to the carbon-14 dating technique? a. materials more than 100,000 years old b. volcanic rock c. sedimentary […]

A polytypic species a. is one that has no phenotypic variability b. has never been observed in nature c. is one composed of local populations that differ from one another with regard to the expression of no more than three […]

Colobine monkeys specialize in eating mature leaves, and are referred to as “leaf-eating monkeys.” Habitual bipedalism is the only form of hominin terrestrial locomotion. Answer: False The mean cranial capacity for Homo erectus is 900 cm3 Answer: True Our ability […]

What can be said about the dispersal of Middle Pleistocene hominins? a. Discoveries of their presence come from North America b. For the first time Europe became more permanently and densely occupied c. Presence in Asia is noticeably lacking d. […]

Except for some early Homo individuals, there is very little in the way of an evolutionary trend in increased body size or of marked greater encephalization. The modification of natural objects for use as tools has several implications for nonhuman […]

According to the information presented in the text, we are living in a critical time in the earth’s history. Much of life as we know it will be decided in a. laboratorios of scientists. b. centuries of slowly changing habits. […]

How many chromosomes occur in a normal human somatic cell? a. 44 b. 48 c. 46 d. 53 e. 50 _________________was the opponent of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and the proposer of the view that the earth’s geological landscape is the result […]

Which of the following does not apply to theories a. Tested explanations of facts b. Usually concerned with broader and more universal views c. Not absolutes and open for falsification d. Specific statements of scientific relationships that have not been […]