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

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Biological Anthropology Quiz sobre Chapter 12: The Origins, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People, criado por heather kuebler em 23-11-2019.
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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

Questão
Modern Homo Sapiens most likely evolved
Responda
  • 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

Questão 4

Questão
How did modern Homo Sapiens reach North and South America?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 5

Questão
Homo Floresiensis has not been proposed to be
Responda
  • 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

Questão 6

Questão
Archaic Homo sapiens
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 7

Questão
The earliest archaeological evidence of humans in Australia is from ________, dating to ________ yBP.
Responda
  • Kow Swamp; 13,000
  • Lake Mungo; 42,000
  • Melbourne; 25,000
  • Tasmania; 35,000

Questão 8

Questão
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.
Responda
  • modern
  • australopithecine
  • archaic
  • apelike

Questão 9

Questão
The Homo floresiensis specimen
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

Questão
The MOST distinctive traits about the cold adaptation complex of Neandertals are
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 13

Questão
If you happen to get on a bus full of Neandertals, according to recent reconstructions, you
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 14

Questão
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?
Responda
  • the cervical (neck) vertebrae
  • the mandible
  • the ribs
  • the hyoid

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

Questão
The Neandertal world included
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 17

Questão
The Neandertals’ disappearance after 30,000 yBP likely involved
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 18

Questão
In Atapuerca 5, early archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertal specimens show heavy wear on the incisors and canines, indicating
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 19

Questão
The morphology of the Paleoindian skull from Kennewick indicates that it
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 20

Questão
Cannibalism was
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

Questão
The out-of-Africa model asserts
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 23

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

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