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Quiz por Christina Hufford, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Christina Hufford
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Questão 1
Questão
Which of the following describes F. Wood Jones' arboreal hypothesis for primate origins?
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many primate adaptions are related to living in the trees.
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the driving force behind the evolution of primates was the need to escape predators.
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primate infants that are a different color from their parents will be easily spotted by predators unless they are in the trees.
Questão 2
Questão
The first fossil evidence of anthropoids is from which of the following epochs?
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Miocene
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Pleistocene
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late Eocene/Oligocene
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Pliocene
Questão 3
Questão
The great diversity of apes that lived during the Miocene is an example of which of the following?
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Punctuated equilibrium
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Adaptive radiation
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The fixity of species
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Anthropoid origins
Questão 4
Questão
According to the genetic-based modern classification of the apes the family Hominidae includes which of the following?
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Orangutans only
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Bipeds only
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Chimps, gorillas, and bipeds correct
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Chimps and gorillas only
Questão 5
Questão
The blades of the human pelvis have are repositioned so that which of the following muscles can act as abductors/stabilizers?
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Greater gluteals
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Hamstrings
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Lesser gluteals
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Quadriceps
Questão 6
Questão
Which of the following is true about the East African Rift Valley?
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Fossils are poorly preserved
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There are rarely associations among fossils
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Absolute dating methods are not possible
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Fossils are well preserved
Questão 7
Questão
Although molecular evidence suggests that prosimians diverged between 67 and 84 million years ago, the oldest prosimian fossils are about how old?
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40 million years
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50 million years
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65 million years
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20 million years
Questão 8
Questão
The epoch of the Cenozoic that directly follows the Miocene is which of the following?
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Paleocene
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Holocene
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Eocene
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Pliocene
Questão 9
Questão
The first fossil evidence of undoubted euprimates (i.e., true primates) was from which of the following epochs?
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Miocene
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Eocene
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Pliocene
Questão 10
Questão
Adapids and omomyids were skeletally similar to which of the following?
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living lemurs
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living hominoids
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living anthropoids
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living cercopithecoids
Questão 11
Questão
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?
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vomer
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orbital notch
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facial ring
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postorbital bar
Questão 12
Questão
Proconsul is characterized by which of the following?
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no supraorbital torus (i.e., no brow ridge)
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Y-pattern on molars
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no tail
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All of these choices
Questão 13
Questão
The fossil hominoid Sivapithecus from Asia had a skull that most closely resembles which of the following?
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chimpanzees
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gorillas
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monkeys
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orangutans
Questão 14
Questão
Which of the following fossil hominoids is thought to have weighed over 300 kilograms and eaten bamboo?
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Dryopithecus
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Gigantopithecus
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Sivapithecus
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Ouranopithecus
Questão 15
Questão
True or false? In the early Miocene there were more ape species in Africa than there were monkey species.
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- True
- False
Questão 16
Questão
True or false? All hominins are bipedal.
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- True
- False
Questão 17
Questão
In humans the lesser gluteals perform which of the following actions?
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Extension of the hip
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Abduction/stabilization of the hip
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Flexion of the hip
Questão 18
Questão
True or false? The line of gravity in humans passes anterior to the spine.
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- True
- False
Questão 19
Questão
True or false? The sacrum of a human is broader than that of a chimpanzee.
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- True
- False
Questão 20
Questão
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?
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thinner
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thicker
Questão 21
Questão
When compared with the chimp pelvis, the human pelvis is what?
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Shorter and wider
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taller and more narrow
Questão 22
Questão
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.
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- True
- False
Questão 23
Questão
Of the following Miocene apes, which has a pelvis that resembles the pelvis of Ardipithecus ramidus?
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Pierolapithecus
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Sivapithecus
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Oreopithecus
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Dryopithecus
Questão 24
Questão
The Kenya Paleontology Expedition (lead by Pickford and Senut) in the Tugen Hills is responsible for identifying which possible early hominin genus?
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Sahelanthropus
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Orrorin
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Ardipithecus
Questão 25
Questão
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?
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Ardipithecus kadabba
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis
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Orrorin tugenensis
Questão 26
Questão
True or false? Ardipithecus kadabba had a canine/P3 honing complex just like a chimpanzee.
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- True
- False
Questão 27
Questão
[blank_start]Who[blank_end] wrote "Principles of Geology" and emphasized the principle of uniformitarianism?
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Charles Lyell
Questão 28
Questão
Carolus Linnaeus held the belief that life forms could not and did not change. This came to be known as:
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The Fixity of Species
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The Great Chain of Being
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Mutation
Questão 29
Questão
Of the following, who was the first to propose a mechanism by which species change known as the ‘Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics’?
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Charles Lyell
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Charles Darwin
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Carolus Linnaeus
Questão 30
Questão
Analogous characters are similar because they:
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are due to convergent evolution
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are due to common ancestry
Questão 31
Questão
Homologous characters are similar because they:
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are due to convergent evolution
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are due to common ancestry
Questão 32
Questão
Currently, non-human apes can be found on which continent? [blank_start]???[blank_end]
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Asia
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