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What distinguishes early archaic Homo Sapiens from Homo Erectus?
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presence in Asia and Europe
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loss of large browridges
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development of a projecting chin
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reduction in skeletal robusticity
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What aspect of Neandertal culture supports their intelligence?
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their simpler Mousterian stone
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inefficient hunting techniques
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no communicating by speech
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symbolic burial rituals
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Modern Homo Sapiens most likely evolved
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from archaic Homo Sapiens already living in Africa, Asia, and Europe
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in Africa and replaced archaic Homo Sapiens in Asia and Europe
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in Asia and Europe and replaced archaic Homo Sapiens in Africa
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in Africa and assimilated archaic Homo Sapiens in Asia and Europe
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How did modern Homo Sapiens reach North and South America?
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They crossed the Pacific Ocean from Austrailia
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They migrated from Southeast Asia via the Pacific islands
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They migrated from northeastern Asia along the Bering land bridge
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They traveled from southern Africa through Antarctica
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Homo Floresiensis has not been proposed to be
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a modern human with a developmental abnormality
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within the range of variation of local human populations
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an isolated descendant of an earlier hominin species
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a descendant of modern humans
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Archaic Homo sapiens
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occurs only in Europe and Asia.
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shows a mixture of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits.
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is dated to the late Pliocene.
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is often found with Oldowan stone tools.
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The earliest archaeological evidence of humans in Australia is from ________, dating to ________ yBP.
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Kow Swamp; 13,000
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Lake Mungo; 42,000
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Melbourne; 25,000
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Tasmania; 35,000
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A hominid fossil that has a long, low skull; projecting face and occipital bone; and large nasal aperture is likely to be classified as having ________ characteristics.
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modern
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australopithecine
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archaic
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apelike
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The Homo floresiensis specimen
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had a small brain due to a pathology.
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lived about 20,000 yBP.
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is the result of genetic drift.
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fits Allen’s rule in body proportions.
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Neandertals’ cold-adapted traits include
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a narrow nasal aperture.
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long limbs.
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a thin torso.
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a projecting midface.
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Painted perforated shells are evidence that Neandertals
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The MOST distinctive traits about the cold adaptation complex of Neandertals are
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the suprainiac fossa and globular shape of the skull.
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thick bones and extra muscles.
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the body and the length of the arms and legs.
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the retromolar space and heavy wearing on the teeth.
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If you happen to get on a bus full of Neandertals, according to recent reconstructions, you
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would not notice, if they were dressed in appropriate attire.
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would be immediately cannibalized.
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could easily tell that you were sitting with a group of hominins that were of a different species or subspecies.
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would have the largest brain on the bus.
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The best fossil evidence to suggest that Neandertals could produce a language like that of modern humans comes from which bone(s) collected at Kebara, Israel?
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To date, the majority of Neandertal fossils have been found in
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India.
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Europe and western Asia.
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northern Africa.
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southeast Asia.
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The Neandertal world included
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North Africa, East Africa, and Europe.
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western Europe only.
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the entire Mediterranean region in Europe and North Africa.
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most of western Europe (France, Spain), the entire European Mediterranean, and western Asia.
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The Neandertals’ disappearance after 30,000 yBP likely involved
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a measurable degree of genetic assimilation into modern human (African) populations.
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isolation into small groups that eventually disappeared one by one.
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rapid extinction due to climate change.
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migration into parts of Asia where they were not well adapted, and thus, died out.
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In Atapuerca 5, early archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertal specimens show heavy wear on the incisors and canines, indicating
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the use of the front teeth for gripping materials.
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the purposeful modification of teeth to demonstrate social rank, as with the Aztecs.
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their use for shaping the cutting edges of stone blades.
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the chewing of massive amounts of fibrous materials.
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The morphology of the Paleoindian skull from Kennewick indicates that it
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was recovered from an elaborate burial.
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represents an early Eskimo population.
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looks quite different from modern Native Americans’ skulls.
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is about 3,000 years old.
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practiced by Neandertals but not modern humans.
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practiced by modern humans but not Neandertals.
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not practiced by any form of Homo sapiens.
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practiced by Neandertals and modern Homo sapiens.
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A distinctive trait of people from East Asia and the Americas is
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The out-of-Africa model asserts
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a single origin of modern people and eventual replacement of archaic Homo sapiens throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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the importance of gene flow across population boundaries.
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migrations of australopithecines out of Africa.
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migrations of Homo habilis out of Africa.
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Human beings first arrived in the Americas approximately ________ yBP.
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50,000
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25,000
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15,000
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5,000