Exam 1 Questions

1) Remote sensing is useful in finding sites because

2) While science and religion may both provide explanations for how the world works, they differ fundamentally since

3) Genes code for

4) All primates have

5) A taxonomic system is

6) A feature is

7) All Prosimians 

8) Anthropology is defined as

9) Absolute dating techniques are those

10) A variant form of a particular gene is called

11) What is NOT one of the observations Darwin made when formulating the Theory of Natural Selection?

12) Grooming in primates serves to 

13) An archaeological site is defined as

14) A "word" of three bases in the genetic code is called

15) Uniformitarianism interpreted the geology of the world as being the result of

16) The sickle-cell trait (lethal when homozygous) is found in high frequencies in certain populations because

17) To classify a group of artifacts by morphology (shape) is 

18) Baboons are of a particular interest to anthropologists because

19) The man responsible for calculating the creation of the universe at 4004 BC was

20) Recessive alleles 

21) The most accurate description of the primate adaptation is

22) The term experimental archaeology refers to 

23) Lamarck's hypothesis for the mechanism of biological change is called

24) The Dental Formula

25) Humans have how many chromosomes?

26) In an archaeological excavation, a grid is laid out over the site

27) The goal of pre-twentieth century "Natural Theology" was to 

28) The part of the human skeleton that provides the clearest evidence for the determining the sex of the individual is (are) the 

29) The dominant sense for the primates is

30) The true measure of success in natural selection is

31) Linnaeus's classification system is called "binomial" because

32) The sickle-cell trait occurs

33) Pongo pygmaeus is the Linnaean name for the

34) The Carbon 14 dating of volcanic rock is

35) When the gene pools of two populations are mixed, producing a new gene pool, the process is called

36) The term "primitive trait" in evolutionary terms means

37) Archaeologists need to be so meticulous in excavating sites because

38) The greatest sexual dimorphism in primates is associated with

39) An archaeologist who is attempting to understand why people in the past did things the way they did is investigating

40) A short trunk, short legs, and mobile shoulder are associated with

Exam 2 Questions

For Questions 1-10, pick the correct answer from among the following:

a.  Ardipithecus ramidus
b.  Australopithecus anamensis
c.  Australopithecus afarensis
d.  Australopithecus africanus

1)  The first early hominid to be discovered, in 1925.

2)  The earliest known hominid, thought to have lived 4.4 MYA.

3)  Lucy's species.

4)  The Taung Child's species.

5)  Is thought to have made the footprints at Laetoli.

6)  The oldest species that is conclusively bipedal.

7)  Discovered by Raymond Dart in South Africa

8)  Discovered by Don Johanson in Ethiopia

9)  The most recently discovered, by Maeve Leakey

10)  Has the smallest canines and least prognathic face


For Questions 11-20, pick the correct answer from among the following:

a. Paranthropus aethiopicus
b. Paranthropus robustus
c. Paranthropus boisei
d. Homo habilis
e. Homo erectus

11)  The Black Skull's species

12)  Is only found in South Africa

13)  Is as tall as modern humans

14)  Has an average cranial capacity of about 680 cc

15)  Is associated with the Acheulian tool industry

16)  Has the largest molars

17)  Was first thought to be the maker of stone tools at Olduvai by Louis Leakey, until a        more likely candidate was discovered

18)  The more likely candidate for the stone tools found at Olduvai

19)  Was first discovered by Eugene Dubois in Java

20)  Was the first discovered in the 1920's 



21)  All of these traits of the hominid skeleton are markers for bipedalism EXCEPT

22)  The evidence at Olorgasailie seems to indicate that at that site

23)  The genus Paranthropus differs from the genus Australopithecus in which feature?

24)  In terms of evolution, our ancestors' big brains

25)  "Lucy" is particularly remarkable because

26)  Neotony means

27)  The Acheulian handaxe was:

28) The sagittal crest

29)  The reason Homo erectus was able to radiate out of Africa was

30)  The tool kit of Homo habilis was all of the following EXCEPT:

31)  The extinction of the australopithecine lines was probably the result of

32)  Piltdown Man was accepted as the Missing Link (although it was a fraud) for so long because

33)  Which of the following has NOT been proposed as an advantage for the evolution of bipedalism?

34)  Evidence that supports the fact that Homo habilis scavenged rather than hunted

35)  Which was NOT a surprising feature of the Turkana Boy- the 1.6 million year old Homo erectus specimen found in Kenya?

36)  Louis Leakey's work at Olduvai Gorge includes the following discoveries;

37)  The Homo erectus specimens from Zhoukoudian:

38)  Flaking stone in order to make tools requires most of all

39)  The diet of the  robust australopithecines (genus Paranthropus) was likely to have been

40)  In general, the cranium of Homo erectus