Chapter 12: The Origins, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People

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Pregunta 1

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What distinguishes early archaic Homo Sapiens from Homo Erectus?
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  • presence in Asia and Europe
  • loss of large browridges
  • development of a projecting chin
  • reduction in skeletal robusticity

Pregunta 2

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What aspect of Neandertal culture supports their intelligence?
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  • their simpler Mousterian stone
  • inefficient hunting techniques
  • no communicating by speech
  • symbolic burial rituals

Pregunta 3

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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
  • in Africa and replaced archaic Homo Sapiens in Asia and Europe
  • in Asia and Europe and replaced archaic Homo Sapiens in Africa
  • in Africa and assimilated archaic Homo Sapiens in Asia and Europe

Pregunta 4

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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
  • They migrated from Southeast Asia via the Pacific islands
  • They migrated from northeastern Asia along the Bering land bridge
  • They traveled from southern Africa through Antarctica

Pregunta 5

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Homo Floresiensis has not been proposed to be
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  • a modern human with a developmental abnormality
  • within the range of variation of local human populations
  • an isolated descendant of an earlier hominin species
  • a descendant of modern humans

Pregunta 6

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Archaic Homo sapiens
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  • occurs only in Europe and Asia.
  • shows a mixture of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits.
  • is dated to the late Pliocene.
  • is often found with Oldowan stone tools.

Pregunta 7

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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
  • Lake Mungo; 42,000
  • Melbourne; 25,000
  • Tasmania; 35,000

Pregunta 8

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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
  • australopithecine
  • archaic
  • apelike

Pregunta 9

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The Homo floresiensis specimen
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  • had a small brain due to a pathology.
  • lived about 20,000 yBP.
  • is the result of genetic drift.
  • fits Allen’s rule in body proportions.

Pregunta 10

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Neandertals’ cold-adapted traits include
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  • a narrow nasal aperture.
  • long limbs.
  • a thin torso.
  • a projecting midface.

Pregunta 11

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Painted perforated shells are evidence that Neandertals
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  • traded with modern humans.
  • used body ornaments.
  • used symbolism.
  • used body ornaments and symbolism.

Pregunta 12

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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.
  • thick bones and extra muscles.
  • the body and the length of the arms and legs.
  • the retromolar space and heavy wearing on the teeth.

Pregunta 13

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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.
  • would be immediately cannibalized.
  • could easily tell that you were sitting with a group of hominins that were of a different species or subspecies.
  • would have the largest brain on the bus.

Pregunta 14

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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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  • the cervical (neck) vertebrae
  • the mandible
  • the ribs
  • the hyoid

Pregunta 15

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To date, the majority of Neandertal fossils have been found in
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  • India.
  • Europe and western Asia.
  • northern Africa.
  • southeast Asia.

Pregunta 16

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The Neandertal world included
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  • North Africa, East Africa, and Europe.
  • western Europe only.
  • the entire Mediterranean region in Europe and North Africa.
  • most of western Europe (France, Spain), the entire European Mediterranean, and western Asia.

Pregunta 17

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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.
  • isolation into small groups that eventually disappeared one by one.
  • rapid extinction due to climate change.
  • migration into parts of Asia where they were not well adapted, and thus, died out.

Pregunta 18

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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.
  • the purposeful modification of teeth to demonstrate social rank, as with the Aztecs.
  • their use for shaping the cutting edges of stone blades.
  • the chewing of massive amounts of fibrous materials.

Pregunta 19

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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.
  • represents an early Eskimo population.
  • looks quite different from modern Native Americans’ skulls.
  • is about 3,000 years old.

Pregunta 20

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Cannibalism was
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  • practiced by Neandertals but not modern humans.
  • practiced by modern humans but not Neandertals.
  • not practiced by any form of Homo sapiens.
  • practiced by Neandertals and modern Homo sapiens.

Pregunta 21

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A distinctive trait of people from East Asia and the Americas is
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  • shovel-shaped incisors.
  • a large nose.
  • thick, long bones.
  • extra muscles on the scapula.

Pregunta 22

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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.
  • the importance of gene flow across population boundaries.
  • migrations of australopithecines out of Africa.
  • migrations of Homo habilis out of Africa.

Pregunta 23

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Human beings first arrived in the Americas approximately ________ yBP.
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  • 50,000
  • 25,000
  • 15,000
  • 5,000
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