Anatomically modern human fossils tend to have

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1. Many anthropologists have argued that the species Homo floresiensis represents a dwarf species of:

A. Homo erectus

B. Homo rudolfensis

C. Homo sapiens

D. Homo neanderthalensis

2. The compromise "Assimilation" model of human origins suggests that:

A. Modern humans entering the New World had to compete and displace archaic hominins who had already colonized these continents.

B. Neandertals still live today around the Arctic circle.

C. Hominin multiculturalism was ideal.

D. Many archaic hominins bred with early modern humans as they spread across the Old World.

3. Anatomically modern human fossils tend to have:

A. All of the above.

B. a distinct chin.

C. a canine fossa.

D. a vertical forehead.

4. Which of these tools indicates that Homo sapiens began eating a new type of food?

A. Harpoon

B. Spear

C. Flake

D. Chopper

5. Modern humans likely migrated to the Americas via:

A. Rafts of vegetation from Africa.

B. Walking to South America at Patagonia.

C. None of these choices are correct.

D. Walking across the Bering land bridge.

6. Molecular (DNA) dating suggest that humans diverged from the African ape line roughly ___________ million years ago.

A. 9 to 10

B. 2 to 3

C. 5 to 7

D. 12 to 15

7. The Venus figurines suggest that Upper Paleolithic people had:

A. steatopygia.

B. hairy bodies.

C. few males.

D. diabetes.

8. Cave art first appears with:

A. Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis.

B. Homo heidelbergensis.

C. Homo neanderthalensis.

D. Homo sapiens.

9. If the common ancestor of African apes and humans was not a knuckle-walker, but instead a climber or a biped, this would mean that:

A. knuckle-walking evolved independently in the different African ape lines (parallelism).

B. the earliest hominins could not have first evolved in Africa.

C. orangutans must also have originally been knuckle-walkers.

D. African apes are not our closest living relatives.

10. Basically all the anatomical differences between chimpanzees and humans we discussed for the head can be explained by differences in:

A. Brain size and diet

B. Behavior

C. Diet and behavior

D. Brain size

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