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40 Cards in this Set
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Miocene victoriapithecids are considered primitive ancestors of all living New World monkeys:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Adapids had a tooth comb in the lower jaw, like living lemurs
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Based on their morphology, omomyids are probably closely related to tarsiers:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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The first true primates (euprimates) appear in the fossil record about 56 mya.
a) true b) false |
a) true
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The skeleton of most Miocene apes was more like that of living monkeys than like that of living apes:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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The group of archaic mammals that lived during the Paleocene epoch and are likely very closely related to the earliest primates are:
a) plesiadapiforms b) omomyids c) adapids d) tarsiers |
a) plesiadapiforms
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During the Miocene epoch of the Cenozoic era, there was an adaptive radiation of which kind of primate?
a) Prosimians b) Monkeys c) Apes D) Humans |
c) apes
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The earliest known South American primate is a 26-million-year-old monkey from Bolivia called:
a) Theropithecus b) Branisella c) Proconsul d) Afropithecus |
b) Branisella
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The very large baboon-like monkey (up to 80 kg or 176 lbs) that lived during the African Plio-Pleistocene was:
a) Proconsul major b) Oreopithecus babolii c) Sivapithecus indicus d) Theropithecus oswaldi |
d) Theropithecus oswaldi
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Both Colobines and Cercopithecines appear in the late Miocene fossil record, representing the two subfamilies of living:
a) apes b) lemurs c) Old World monkeys d) New World monkeys |
c) Old World monkeys
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Direct radiometric dating of volcanic rocks provides very accurate ages for many East African Rift Valley hominid sites:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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The first hominids appeared in Africa about 2-3 mya:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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In 1959, Louis Leakey described the first specimen of Australopithecus ever discovered:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Fossil remains of the pre-australopithecines are found throughout most of the Old World, from Africa to East Asia:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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All the early hominids from Africa older than 2 million years possessed small brains, the size of apes':
a) true b) false |
a) true
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The fossil nicknamed "Lucy" is a member of which species?
a) Australopithecus anamensis b) Ardipithecus ramidus c) Australopithecus afarensis d) Australopithecus africanus |
c) Australopithecus afarensis
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Each of the following traits is found in a bipedal hominid EXCEPT:
a) a wide, short pelvis b) a big toe in line with the other toes c) an angled thigh bone d) a foramen magnum far back on the skull |
d) a foramen magnum far back on the skull
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The Laetoli footprints demonstrate that the foot of Australopithecus afarensis was humanlike in having:
a) a rounded heel b) a nondivergent big toe c) a double arch d) all of the above |
d) all of the above
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Fossils attributed to Australopithecus garhi were found at the Bouri site, in Ethiopia, along with:
a) abundant stone tools b) animal bones with cutmarks c) evidence for early Homo d) fossil footprints |
b) animal bones with cutmarks
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Which of the following is NOT considered a robust australopithecine?
a) Australopithecus boisei b) Australopithecus anamensis c) Australopithecus aethiopicus d) Australopithecus robustus |
b) Australopithecus anamensis
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Homo habilis used Acheuian hand axes:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Homo erectus had long legs as compared to earlier hominids:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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Homo habilis likely spent appreciable time in the trees:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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Homo habilis had controlled use of fire:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Evidence from the Nariokotome Boy suggests that modern human growth patterns were already present in Homo erectus:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Classic Homo erectus cranial features include all of the following EXCEPT:
a) thick cranial bones b) large browridges c) rounded skull d) sagittal keel |
c) rounded skull
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Analysis of Homo erectus teeth found at Zhoukoudian suggests that controlled use of fire allowed this species to:
a) ward of predators b) expand into more temperate environments c) make foods easier to chew d) none of the above |
c) make foods easier to chew
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Fossil evidence of cut marks made with stone tools at early hominid sites suggests that:
a) meat eating started only with the appearance of Homo erectus and stone tools b) big game hunting was the most common way early hominids obtained meat c) meat eating started before Homo erectus but increased with more advanced technology d) none of the above |
c) meat eating started before Homo erectus but increased with more advanced technology
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Relative to Oldowan tools, Acheulean stone tools:
a) had a narrower range of functions b) used fewer raw materials c) were characterized by fewer tool types d) required more learning and skill to produce |
d) required more learning and skill to produce
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Evidence of cannibalism among early hominids is found at:
a) Zhoukoudian, China b) Gran Dolina, Spain c) Olduvai Gorge, Kenya d) Sangiran, Java |
b) Gran Dolina, Spain
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The earth is about 4.6 billion years old:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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Rapid burial after death usually impedes fossilization:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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Fossils are typically recovered within igneous rock exposures:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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In terms of geologic time, human beings are a very recent arrival on Earth:
a) true b) false |
a) true
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Fossils representing most of the living groups of animals (e.g., fish, insects, mammas) derive from the Precambrian eon:
a) true b) false |
b) false
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The study of what happens to an organism's remains after death is:
a) archaeology b) cryptozoology c) biology d) taphonomy |
d) taphonomy
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The theory that species persist for long periods and then undergo rapid spurts of evolutionary change is:
a) phyletic gradualism b) punctuated equilibrium c) parallel evolution d) convergent evolution |
b) punctuated equilibrium
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The "supercontinent" that existed about 200 mya, from which the modern continents ultimately emerged, is called:
a) Eurasia b) Afronesia Australasia d) Pangaea |
d) Pangaea
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If fossil species A is consistently recovered from geological deposits beneath layers containing fossil species B, then A is considered older than B. This relative dating technique is based on the principle of:
a) superposition b) paleomagnetism c) fluorine analysis d) geolayering |
a) superposition
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Prior to the invention of absolute dating techniques, one of the chemical dating methods useful for establishing the relative age of fossils from a single site was:
a) fission track dating b) thermoluminescence dating c) electron spin resonance dating d) fluorine dating |
d) fluorine dating
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