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25 Cards in this Set
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When did Homo sapiens first appear in the fossil record? |
200,000 years ago |
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What are Hominoids ancestral to? |
Apes and humans |
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What are Hominids ancestral to? |
Humans only |
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When did Australopithecus first leave the African forests? |
2-4 million years ago |
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What were Homo habilis known for? |
Tool usage |
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What were the first primates that were probably able to make a wide range of sounds to aid in speech? |
Homo erectus |
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Cro-Magnons coexisted with what other hominid species in Europe about 30,000 years ago? |
Neanderthals |
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Modern day humans probably arose from which group of Homo sapiens? |
Homo sapiens idaltu/ Cro-Magnons |
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The concept of molecular evolution is based on what premise? |
Species with more DNA have more common ancestry |
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Humans have the most chromosome banding patterns in common with what other species? |
Chimpanzees |
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What do molecular tree diagrams compare? |
DNA sequences to determine common ancestry |
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How do DNA hybridization experiments estimate species relatedness? |
Seeing how many hybrids form between DNA of different sketches and more in common mean they're more related |
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What are some complications of molecular clock studies? |
Accurate representation of DNA mutational rates and complete fossil records |
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Why are mtDNA sequences useful for taking recent evolution of humans? |
Mutates faster than nuclear DNA and passes from mother to all offspring |
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How long ago and where did Mitochondrial Eve probably live? |
200,000 years ago in Africa |
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What does the multiregional hypothesis of human migration state? |
Humans originated in several areas independent of each other |
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What is eugenics? |
Control of human reproduction for societal goals |
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Heterozygous carriers of serious generic disorders are, by law, not permitted to have children in what country? |
China |
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In 1910, Charles Davenport believed that "feeblemindedness" was due to what? |
Autosomal recessive trait |
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When did Aegyptophithecus live? |
30 million years ago |
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What do HOX genes control? |
Structural development |
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What were the Homo floresiensis, what did they coexist with, and where did they live? |
Indonesia; with modern humans; small with small brains |
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Otzi, the Ice man, was a preserved sample of what species? |
Homo sapiens |
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What is believed to be the evolutionary bridge between Australopithecines and the genus Homo? |
A. garhi |
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Be able to list private species in correct order from oldest to most recent. |
Aegyptophithecus, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Cro-Magnon, Homo sapiens |
