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Midterm Review

Question 1 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 2 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Miocene

  • Pleistocene

  • late Eocene/Oligocene

  • Pliocene

Explanation

Question 3 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Punctuated equilibrium

  • Adaptive radiation

  • The fixity of species

  • Anthropoid origins

Explanation

Question 4 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Orangutans only

  • Bipeds only

  • Chimps, gorillas, and bipeds correct

  • Chimps and gorillas only

Explanation

Question 5 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Greater gluteals

  • Hamstrings

  • Lesser gluteals

  • Quadriceps

Explanation

Question 6 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Fossils are poorly preserved

  • There are rarely associations among fossils

  • Absolute dating methods are not possible

  • Fossils are well preserved

Explanation

Question 7 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 40 million years

  • 50 million years

  • 65 million years

  • 20 million years

Explanation

Question 8 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Paleocene

  • Holocene

  • Eocene

  • Pliocene

Explanation

Question 9 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Miocene

  • Eocene

  • Pliocene

Explanation

Question 10 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • living lemurs

  • living hominoids

  • living anthropoids

  • living cercopithecoids

Explanation

Question 11 of 32

1

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?

Select one of the following:

  • vomer

  • orbital notch

  • facial ring

  • postorbital bar

Explanation

Question 12 of 32

1

Proconsul is characterized by which of the following?

Select one of the following:

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

  • Y-pattern on molars

  • no tail

  • All of these choices

Explanation

Question 13 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • chimpanzees

  • gorillas

  • monkeys

  • orangutans

Explanation

Question 14 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Dryopithecus

  • Gigantopithecus

  • Sivapithecus

  • Ouranopithecus

Explanation

Question 15 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 32

1

True or false? All hominins are bipedal.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Extension of the hip

  • Abduction/stabilization of the hip

  • Flexion of the hip

Explanation

Question 18 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 32

1

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?

Select one of the following:

  • thinner

  • thicker

Explanation

Question 21 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Shorter and wider

  • taller and more narrow

Explanation

Question 22 of 32

1

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.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Pierolapithecus

  • Sivapithecus

  • Oreopithecus

  • Dryopithecus

Explanation

Question 24 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Sahelanthropus

  • Orrorin

  • Ardipithecus

Explanation

Question 25 of 32

1

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?

Select one of the following:

  • Ardipithecus kadabba

  • Sahelanthropus tchadensis

  • Orrorin tugenensis

Explanation

Question 26 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 32

1

Fill the blank space to complete the text.

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

Explanation

Question 28 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • The Fixity of Species

  • The Great Chain of Being

  • Mutation

Explanation

Question 29 of 32

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  • Charles Lyell

  • Charles Darwin

  • Carolus Linnaeus

Explanation

Question 30 of 32

1

Analogous characters are similar because they:

Select one of the following:

  • are due to convergent evolution

  • are due to common ancestry

Explanation

Question 31 of 32

1

Homologous characters are similar because they:

Select one of the following:

  • are due to convergent evolution

  • are due to common ancestry

Explanation

Question 32 of 32

1

Fill the blank space to complete the text.

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

Explanation

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