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