A) Hominid family B) Gibbon family C) Lemur family D) Cercopithecid family
A) Flight, echolocation, and tail prehensility B) Shell growth, webbed feet, and bioluminescence C) Bipedalism, dexterity, and complex language D) Photosynthesis, hibernation, and venom production
A) It stopped completely 300,000 years ago. B) It happened exclusively in North America. C) It was weblike rather than linear. D) It occurred in a strictly straight line.
A) Astrophysics, marine biology, and quantum mechanics B) Meteorology, vulcanology, and petrology C) Physical and evolutionary anthropology, paleontology, and genetics D) Organic chemistry, metallurgy, and seismology
A) Anthropomorphism and philanthropy B) Archaeology and ethnography C) Andrology and anthropology D) Anthropogenesis and anthropogony
A) About 2 million years ago B) About 300,000 years ago C) About 15–20 million years ago D) About 85 million years ago
A) Devonian period and Eocene epoch B) Triassic period and Oligocene epoch C) Late Cretaceous period and Paleocene epoch D) Jurassic period and Miocene epoch
A) About 85 million years ago B) Over 55 million years ago C) About 300,000 years ago D) Some 15–20 million years ago
A) About 14 million years ago B) Between 8 and 9 million years ago C) Over 2 million years ago D) 4–7 million years ago
A) About 14 million years ago B) Between 8 and 9 million years ago C) Approximately 300,000 years ago D) About 85 million years ago
A) 35 million years ago B) 15–20 million years ago C) 4–7 million years ago D) 24 million years ago
A) 300,000 years ago B) Over 2 million years ago C) 85 million years ago D) 55 million years ago
A) 85 million years ago B) 300,000 years ago C) 15 million years ago D) 2 million years ago
A) 65 million years B) 2 million years C) 85 million years D) 300,000 years
A) Because primates did not leave any bones B) Because DNA degrades too quickly in mammals C) Due to a lack of interest among scientists D) Due to scarcity of fossil evidence
A) Italy B) North America C) China D) Northern Africa
A) Spain B) North America C) China D) Namibia
A) Turkey B) Austria C) Northern Africa D) North America
A) Saadanius B) Plesiadapis C) David R. Begun D) Kamoyapithecus
A) Otavipithecus cave B) Faiyum depression C) Great Rift Valley D) Eragaleit beds
A) Great apes B) New World monkeys C) Lemurs D) Old World monkeys
A) Gibbons B) Bush babies C) New World monkeys D) Old World monkeys
A) Plesiadapis B) Kamoyapithecus C) Oreopithecus D) Archicebus
A) China, 55 million years ago B) Italy, 9 million years ago C) Eragaleit in northern Kenya, 24 million years ago D) Faiyum depression, 35 million years ago
A) Aegyptopithecus, Propliopithecus, and Parapithecus B) Sivapithecus, Griphopithecus, and Nacholapithecus C) Pierolapithecus, Dryopithecus, and Oreopithecus D) Victoriapithecus, Proconsul, and Dendropithecus
A) Kamoyapithecus B) Altiatlasius C) Plesiadapis D) Saadanius
A) 85 mya B) 300,000 years C) 29–28 mya D) 9 mya
A) The earliest known hominid from North America B) The earliest Old World monkey, from 20 million years ago C) A direct ancestor of New World monkeys from 55 mya D) The oldest known lemur from Madagascar
A) Proconsul, Rangwapithecus, and Kenyapithecus B) Plesiadapis, Archicebus, and Altiatlasius C) Saadanius, Kamoyapithecus, and Aegyptopithecus D) Oreopithecus, Pierolapithecus, and Dryopithecus
A) In coal beds in Italy B) In the Faiyum depression in Egypt C) In cave deposits in Namibia D) In northern China
A) China and Southeast Asia B) North America and Madagascar C) Kenya, Namibia, and Egypt D) France, Spain, and Austria
A) Oreopithecus B) Saadanius C) Kamoyapithecus D) Victoriapithecus
A) 18–12 mya B) 300,000 years ago C) 4–7 million years ago D) 85 million years ago
A) Over 2 million years ago B) Between 8 and 9 million years ago C) About 12 million years ago D) About 85 million years ago
A) Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey B) Plesiadapis from North America and Archicebus from China C) Altiatlasius and Algeripithecus from Northern Africa D) Oreopithecus from Italy and Otavipithecus from Namibia
A) 24 mya B) About 14 mya C) 55 mya D) 9 mya
A) Ardipithecus ramidus B) Sahelanthropus tchadensis C) Orrorin tugenensis D) Nakalipithecus fossils
A) Cold tundra environments B) Wet swampy environments C) Drier environments D) High mountain peaks
A) 3 Ma B) 6 Ma C) 12 Ma D) 8 Ma
A) Gorillas B) Orangutans C) Chimpanzees D) Bonobos
A) Pan troglodytes B) Pongo pygmaeus C) Pan paniscus D) Gorilla gorilla
A) The aquatic ape hypothesis B) The savanna-based bipedalism model C) The chimpanzee referential model D) The multiregional evolution model
A) Pan paniscus B) Pan troglodytes C) Ardipithecus ramidus D) Nakalipithecus
A) Aggressive canine morphology B) Large braincase C) Bipedal foot structure D) Broad pelvis
A) Phylogenetically deep traits B) Recently acquired genetic mutations from Eurasia C) Artificial selection by early farmers D) Temporary phenotypic plasticity
A) Baboons B) Gorillas C) Orangutans D) Chimpanzees
A) Archaic chimpanzees B) Gracile australopiths C) Robust australopiths D) Early humans
A) Australopithecus B) Dryopithecus C) Kenyanthropus D) Paranthropus
A) Australopithecus aethiopicus B) Australopithecus boisei C) Australopithecus robustus D) Australopithecus sediba
A) Paranthropus B) Kenyanthropus C) Australopithecus D) Pan
A) Ardi B) Little Foot C) Turkana Boy D) Lucy
A) Opposable big toe B) Prehensile tail C) Curved spine D) Long arms
A) Australopithecus deyiremeda B) Australopithecus bahrelghazali C) Australopithecus garhi D) Australopithecus prometheus
A) Gracile australopiths B) Mega australopiths C) Giant australopiths D) Robust australopiths
A) The Ledi jaw B) Homo habilis C) Homo erectus D) Homo sapiens
A) BRCA1 B) FOXP2 C) SRGAP2 D) TP53
A) 400 cm3 B) 850 cm3 C) 1250 cm3 D) 1500 cm3
A) H. heidelbergensis, H. rhodesiensis or H. antecessor B) Chimpanzees C) H. floresiensis only D) H. luzonensis only
A) Homo floresiensis B) Homo neanderthalensis C) Homo sapiens D) Homo erectus
A) The Sahara pump theory B) The Toba catastrophe theory C) The bottleneck theory D) The recent African origin theory
A) Richard Wrangham B) Louis Leakey C) Franz Weidenreich D) Eugene Dubois
A) Tall giant B) Walking man C) Southern ape D) Handy man
A) March 1985 B) January 1891 C) May 2010 D) December 1940
A) China B) Kenya C) Indonesia D) Georgia
A) Richard Wrangham B) Louis Leakey C) Franz Weidenreich D) Eugene Dubois
A) Sinanthropus pekinensis B) Homo gautengensis C) Australopithecus africanus D) Anthropopithecus erectus
A) Richard Wrangham B) Franz Weidenreich C) Eugene Dubois D) Louis Leakey
A) Georgia B) China C) Island of Java D) Non-Asian forms
A) More elaborate stone tools B) Bronze weapons C) Wooden bows and arrows D) Bone needles
A) Steam B) Fire C) Chemical preservatives D) Hot water baths
A) Neanderthals B) Troglodytes C) Chimpanzees D) Modern humans
A) Denisovans B) Eurasian archaic humans C) Mauer mandible hominins D) Chinese Middle Pleistocene hominins
A) H. sapiens B) Denisovans C) Neanderthals D) H. antecessor
A) A single skull cap B) A facial structure C) A mandible jaw D) Two scapulae
A) Italy B) Germany C) Morocco D) Spain
A) 1907 B) 2009 C) 2020 D) 1994
A) Otto Schoetensack B) Researchers in Casablanca C) Spanish paleontologists D) Scientists at Campo Grande
A) 2009 B) 2020 C) 1994 D) 1907
A) Neandertals B) Chimpanzees C) H. antecessor D) Denisovans
A) 2009 B) 1994 C) 2026 D) 1907
A) Asian species B) Afro-European species C) Strictly European species D) Strictly African species
A) 2008 B) 2006 C) 1921 D) 2010
A) Ethiopia B) Siberia C) Zambia D) Romania
A) January 1921 B) March 2008 C) December 2016 D) February 2006
A) Ethiopia B) Siberia C) Zambia D) Romania
A) Inuit B) Africans C) Melanesians D) Eurasians
A) Hands B) Feet C) Brains D) Hearts
A) Hearing range B) Visual acuity C) Olfactory sense D) Tactile sensitivity
A) 1,000 B) 120 C) 500 D) 144
A) 28 B) 144 C) 120 D) 60
A) 11% B) 6% C) 50% D) 1% to 4%
A) 2016 B) 2008 C) 2006 D) 1921
A) Dunbar B) Corinne Simoneti C) Stringer D) Sergi Castellano
A) Corinne Simoneti B) Pearce C) Sergi Castellano D) Darwin
A) Gawis B) Gibraltar C) Zambia D) Denisova Cave
A) The dwarf B) The pygmy C) The hobbit D) The islander
A) Genetic drift B) Pathological gigantism C) Insular dwarfism D) Natural selection
A) 2016 B) 2003 C) 2000 D) 1990
A) Two meters B) Eighty centimeters C) One and a half meters D) One meter
A) Java B) Flores C) Bali D) Sumatra |