Paleoanthropology - Test
A) Tanzania B) South Africa C) Kenya D) Ethiopia
A) Miocene B) Pleistocene C) Holocene D) Pliocene
A) Tim White B) Donald Johanson C) Richard Leakey D) Chris Stringer
A) Homo habilis B) Australopithecus afarensis C) Homo erectus D) Paranthropus boisei
A) Cro-Magnons B) Denisovans C) Hobbits D) Gracile Homo sapiens
A) Tim White B) David Pilbeam C) Michel Brunet D) Yves Coppens
A) Denisovans B) Homo habilis C) Neanderthals D) Cro-Magnons
A) The Fast-Climbing Apes Hypothesis B) The Endurance Running Hypothesis C) The Slow-Walking Savages Hypothesis D) The Leaping Primates Hypothesis
A) France B) Spain C) Croatia D) Germany
A) Ancient Footprints Analysis B) Ichnology C) Paleo-Podology D) Pleistocene Podiatry
A) Australopithecus afarensis B) Neanderthals C) Paranthropus boisei D) Homo habilis
A) Paranthropus boisei B) Homo erectus C) Homo heidelbergensis D) Australopithecus afarensis
A) Ethiopia B) Tanzania C) South Africa D) Kenya
A) Tim White B) Richard Leakey C) Raymond Dart D) Donald Johanson
A) Japan B) Mongolia C) Vietnam D) China
A) Dendrochronology B) DNA sequencing C) Thermoluminescence dating D) Radiocarbon dating
A) Archaeology B) Paleontology C) Paleoanthropology D) Anthropology
A) Peking Man B) Turkana Boy C) Ardi D) Lucy
A) Homo habilis B) Australopithecus africanus C) Homo heidelbergensis D) Paranthropus robustus
A) Carl Linnaeus. B) Thomas Huxley. C) Charles Darwin. D) Richard Owen.
A) Brigitte Senut B) Lee Berger C) Yohannes Haile-Selassie D) Zeresenay Alemseged
A) Sahelanthropus tchadensis B) Australopithecus sediba C) Homo naledi D) Australopithecus afarensis
A) Named based on specimens discovered in Ethiopia's Awash valley B) Discovery of Homo ergaster C) Proof of bipedality in Australopithecus afarensis D) Evidence of Paranthropus robustus
A) Paranthropus B) Habilis C) Australopithecus D) Homo
A) Linguistics, sociology, and psychology. B) Primatology, paleontology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. C) Botany, zoology, and microbiology. D) Astrobiology, geology, and marine biology.
A) Richard Leakey B) Meave Leakey C) Mary Leakey D) Donald Johanson
A) Not specified in the text B) 600 cm3 C) 410 cm3 D) 800 cm3
A) They were lost. B) They were taken to the United States. C) They were destroyed in a fire. D) They were sold to a private collector.
A) Brigitte Senut B) Yohannes Haile-Selassie C) Zeresenay Alemseged D) Lee Berger
A) Paranthropus aethiopicus B) Australopithecus anamensis C) Homo habilis D) Homo rudolfensis
A) Understanding the early development of anatomically modern humans through evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae. B) Examining the genetic makeup of contemporary human populations. C) Studying the cultural practices of modern human societies. D) Exploring the behavior of non-human primates in their natural habitats.
A) Ethiopia B) South Africa C) Kenya D) Chad
A) The discovery of Neanderthal in Germany. B) Major discoveries at Olduvai Gorge and East Turkana. C) The discovery of Peking Man. D) The establishment of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory.
A) Latin, from palaeus (ancient), anthropus (human), and -logia (study). B) Greek, from palaiós (old), ánthrōpos (man), and -logía (study of). C) Arabic, from palai (old), insan (man), and ilm (study). D) Sanskrit, from palaya (ancient), manushya (human), and vidya (study).
A) Paranthropus boisei B) Australopithecus afarensis C) Homo habilis D) Homo rudolfensis
A) Laetoli footprints B) Black Skull C) Lucy skeleton D) Zinj fossin
A) Alfred Russel Wallace. B) Thomas Huxley. C) Charles Darwin. D) Richard Owen.
A) Max Schlosser. B) Johan Gunnar Andersson. C) Davidson Black. D) Otto Zdansky.
A) Ardipithecus ramidus B) Kenyanthropus platyops C) Homo habilis D) Australopithecus garhi
A) Lee Berger B) Zeresenay Alemseged C) Yohannes Haile-Selassie D) Brigitte Senut
A) Australopithecus sediba B) Ardipithecus kadabba C) Orrorin tugenensis D) Homo naledi
A) Orangutans and gibbons were considered the closest living relatives. B) Humans were considered to be most closely related to Neanderthals. C) Humans were thought to have no close living relatives. D) Chimpanzees and gorillas were considered the closest living relatives to humans.
A) The discovery of Homo habilis. B) The discovery of Australopithecus. C) The discovery of Neanderthal. D) The discovery of Homo erectus.
A) KNM-ER 1470 B) OH 5 C) OH 7 D) Laetoli footprints
A) Australopithecus pekinensis. B) Homo erectus pekinensis. C) Neanderthalensis pekinensis. D) Sinanthropus pekinensis.
A) He cautiously identified it as an unidentified anthropoid. B) He dismissed it as a non-human primate tooth. C) He immediately identified it as Homo sapiens. D) He classified it as a new species of ape.
A) Genetics is used to study the dietary habits of early humans. B) Genetics is used to examine and compare DNA structures to research evolutionary kinship lines. C) Genetics is used to create synthetic hominid species. D) Genetics is used to map the migration patterns of modern humans.
A) 410 cm3 B) 1000 cm3 C) 800 cm3 D) 600 cm3 |
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