Midterm Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Proconsul is characterized by which of the following?

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

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

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

True or false? All hominins are bipedal.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

[blank_start]Who[blank_end] wrote "Principles of Geology" and emphasized the principle of uniformitarianism?

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

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

Analogous characters are similar because they:

Homologous characters are similar because they:

Currently, non-human apes can be found on which continent? [blank_start]???[blank_end]