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1
Which of the following is NOT an example of fossilization?
A)bones or teeth turned to stone
B)skin or feathers
C)impressions of footprints embedded in rocks
D)petrified wood
2
Which type of fossil-dating technique is based on the layers of the earth?
A)fluorine dating
B)fission-track
C)stratigraphy
D)dendrochronology
3
Which type of fossil dating technique gives a specific age for a fossil based either on analysis of a piece of the fossil or on analysis of the rocks surrounding the fossil?
A)fluorine dating
B)faunal correlation
C)relative dating
D)chronometric dating
4
The following traits allow us to classify organisms as mammals, in distinction from reptiles, EXCEPT:
A)binocular vision
B)homiothermy
C)lactation and internal gestation
D)unique brain structures
5
Which of the following traits allow an organism to be classified as a primate?
A)hands that grasp and nails on digits
B)binocular vision and large brain size
C)binocular vision, hands that grasp, and nails on digits
D)None of these answers is correct.
6
What are the Plesiadapis known as?
A)the earliest possible primates
B)the earliest possible mammals
C)mammals who became extinct during the Paleocene
D)primates who became extinct during the Paleocene
7
Which of the following is NOT a hypothesis that accounts for the appearance of a set of primate-like traits in the fossil record?
A)arboreal hypothesis
B)visual adaptations hypothesis
C)angiosperm radiation hypothesis
D)rafting hypothesis
8
Which of the following is definitely NOT a type of primate that diversified early in the Eocene?
A)Adapoids
B)Omomyoids
C)Plesiadapis
D)Anthropoids
9
Which of the following is NOT a hypothesis for how Anthropoids got to South America?
A)parallel evolution
B)convergent evolution
C)migration from North America to South America
D)migration from Africa to South America
10
According to fossil evidence, where is the place of origin for the hominoids?
A)Israel
B)Africa
C)Eurasia
D)Great Britain
11
What is the ancestry of the Simiiform (anthropoid) primates?
A)adapoid
B)omomyoid
C)early anthropoid
D)undetermined; paleoanthropologists currently debate this
12
When do the hominoids experience a decrease in diversity?
A)early Miocene
B)late Paleocene
C)late Miocene
D)early Eocene
13
Which term means having different types of teeth?
A)heterodontism
B)homiothermism
C)heterothermism
D)orthodentism
14
Which term means the ratio of brain to body size?
A)cerebral calculation
B)encephalization calculation
C)encephalization quotient
D)cerebral quotient
15
Which of the following is the "superfamily" that includes the apes of Africa and Asia and humans?
A)Hominoidea
B)Simiiformes
C)Ceboidea
D)Cercopithecoidea





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