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Human Origins Quiz am Midterm Review, erstellt von Christina Hufford am 07/09/2016.

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Midterm Review

Frage 1 von 32

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Which of the following describes F. Wood Jones' arboreal hypothesis for primate origins?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • many primate adaptions are related to living in the trees.

  • the driving force behind the evolution of primates was the need to escape predators.

  • primate infants that are a different color from their parents will be easily spotted by predators unless they are in the trees.

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Frage 2 von 32

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The first fossil evidence of anthropoids is from which of the following epochs?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Miocene

  • Pleistocene

  • late Eocene/Oligocene

  • Pliocene

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Frage 3 von 32

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The great diversity of apes that lived during the Miocene is an example of which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Punctuated equilibrium

  • Adaptive radiation

  • The fixity of species

  • Anthropoid origins

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Frage 4 von 32

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According to the genetic-based modern classification of the apes the family Hominidae includes which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Orangutans only

  • Bipeds only

  • Chimps, gorillas, and bipeds correct

  • Chimps and gorillas only

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Frage 5 von 32

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The blades of the human pelvis have are repositioned so that which of the following muscles can act as abductors/stabilizers?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Greater gluteals

  • Hamstrings

  • Lesser gluteals

  • Quadriceps

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Frage 6 von 32

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Which of the following is true about the East African Rift Valley?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Fossils are poorly preserved

  • There are rarely associations among fossils

  • Absolute dating methods are not possible

  • Fossils are well preserved

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Frage 7 von 32

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Although molecular evidence suggests that prosimians diverged between 67 and 84 million years ago, the oldest prosimian fossils are about how old?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 40 million years

  • 50 million years

  • 65 million years

  • 20 million years

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Frage 8 von 32

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The epoch of the Cenozoic that directly follows the Miocene is which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Paleocene

  • Holocene

  • Eocene

  • Pliocene

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Frage 9 von 32

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The first fossil evidence of undoubted euprimates (i.e., true primates) was from which of the following epochs?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Miocene

  • Eocene

  • Pliocene

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Frage 10 von 32

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Adapids and omomyids were skeletally similar to which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • living lemurs

  • living hominoids

  • living anthropoids

  • living cercopithecoids

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Frage 11 von 32

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The ring of bone that closes the lateral (i.e., outer side) of the orbit in the earliest primates and in prosimians is called which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • vomer

  • orbital notch

  • facial ring

  • postorbital bar

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Frage 12 von 32

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Proconsul is characterized by which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • no supraorbital torus (i.e., no brow ridge)

  • Y-pattern on molars

  • no tail

  • All of these choices

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Frage 13 von 32

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The fossil hominoid Sivapithecus from Asia had a skull that most closely resembles which of the following?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • chimpanzees

  • gorillas

  • monkeys

  • orangutans

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Frage 14 von 32

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Which of the following fossil hominoids is thought to have weighed over 300 kilograms and eaten bamboo?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Dryopithecus

  • Gigantopithecus

  • Sivapithecus

  • Ouranopithecus

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Frage 15 von 32

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True or false? In the early Miocene there were more ape species in Africa than there were monkey species.

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 16 von 32

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True or false? All hominins are bipedal.

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 17 von 32

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In humans the lesser gluteals perform which of the following actions?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Extension of the hip

  • Abduction/stabilization of the hip

  • Flexion of the hip

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Frage 18 von 32

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True or false? The line of gravity in humans passes anterior to the spine.

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 19 von 32

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True or false? The sacrum of a human is broader than that of a chimpanzee.

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 20 von 32

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Stress placed on the human femoral neck during standing and bipedal walking causes the inferior (bottom) portion of the neck to have which type of bone in relation to the superior (top) portion?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • thinner

  • thicker

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Frage 21 von 32

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When compared with the chimp pelvis, the human pelvis is what?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Shorter and wider

  • taller and more narrow

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Frage 22 von 32

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True or false? Africa's Great Rift Valley is a great place to find fossils because the volcanic activity in the area makes absolute dating possible.

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 23 von 32

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Of the following Miocene apes, which has a pelvis that resembles the pelvis of Ardipithecus ramidus?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Pierolapithecus

  • Sivapithecus

  • Oreopithecus

  • Dryopithecus

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Frage 24 von 32

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The Kenya Paleontology Expedition (lead by Pickford and Senut) in the Tugen Hills is responsible for identifying which possible early hominin genus?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Sahelanthropus

  • Orrorin

  • Ardipithecus

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Frage 25 von 32

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A young Ethiopian scholar named Yohannes Haile-Selassie is known for discovering some of the oldest hominin fossils in the Afar Triangle, dating between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago. These fossils have been assigned to which of the following species?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Ardipithecus kadabba

  • Sahelanthropus tchadensis

  • Orrorin tugenensis

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Frage 26 von 32

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True or false? Ardipithecus kadabba had a canine/P3 honing complex just like a chimpanzee.

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 27 von 32

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wrote "Principles of Geology" and emphasized the principle of uniformitarianism?

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Frage 28 von 32

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Carolus Linnaeus held the belief that life forms could not and did not change. This came to be known as:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The Fixity of Species

  • The Great Chain of Being

  • Mutation

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Frage 29 von 32

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Of the following, who was the first to propose a mechanism by which species change known as the ‘Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics’?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  • Charles Lyell

  • Charles Darwin

  • Carolus Linnaeus

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Frage 30 von 32

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Analogous characters are similar because they:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • are due to convergent evolution

  • are due to common ancestry

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Frage 31 von 32

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Homologous characters are similar because they:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • are due to convergent evolution

  • are due to common ancestry

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Frage 32 von 32

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Currently, non-human apes can be found on which continent?

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