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Which of the following is NOT a morphological change exhibited by archaic Homo sapiens? |
| | A) | slightly thinner cranial bones |
| | B) | increased occipital torus |
| | C) | reduced postorbital constriction |
| | D) | a less prognathic face |
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What archaic form inhabited Africa and Europe 600,000 to 200,000 years ago and had robust, thick cranial walls? |
| | A) | Homo erectus |
| | B) | Homo antecessor |
| | C) | Homo heidelbergensis |
| | D) | Homo neanderthalensis |
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Homo neanderthalensis? |
| | A) | very large incisor teeth |
| | B) | a retromolar gap |
| | C) | midface prognathism |
| | D) | mean cranial capacities much smaller than the average modern human |
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What is the disk-core technique that allowed tool makers to produce many good flakes with little effort and then turn those flakes into a wide variety of fine tools called? |
| | A) | Mousterian industry |
| | B) | Levallois technique |
| | C) | Olduwan toolkit |
| | D) | Acheulian toolkit |
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Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the material culture of Neanderthals? |
| | A) | Fossil evidence indicates postmortem defleshing occurred. |
| | B) | Individuals adorned their bodies with shells. |
| | C) | Complex tool kits enabled more efficient manipulation of animal hides. |
| | D) | Despite more complex tools, the diet remained vegetarian. |
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Which of the following characteristics identified modern humans? |
| | A) | brain size, teeth, and chin |
| | B) | bipedal anatomy and brain size |
| | C) | cranium and chin |
| | D) | cranium, teeth, and chin |
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When and where were the earliest anatomically modern human fossils found? |
| | A) | Africa, 60,000 million years ago |
| | B) | Asia, 70,000 years ago |
| | C) | Middle East, 110,000 years ago |
| | D) | Africa, 160,000 years ago |
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Anatomically modern human fossils are about 150,000 years old. When does the material culture associated with modern humanity commonly appear in the archeological record? |
| | A) | approximately 150,000 years ago |
| | B) | approximately 100,000 years ago |
| | C) | approximately 50,000 years ago |
| | D) | approximately 20,000 years ago |
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What did modern humans use to carve wood, ivory, and bone in order to produce durable fishhooks and needles? |
| | A) | Acheulian tools |
| | B) | unmodified stones |
| | C) | small spears |
| | D) | blade tools |
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What is the first indication of a communication system that allowed humans to refer to objects and topics that were not immediately present? |
| | A) | language |
| | B) | symbolic expression |
| | C) | complex tool kits |
| | D) | nonfunctional objects |
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Which model of human evolution proposes that modern humans are the result of a speciation event in the late Pleistocene in Africa? |
| | A) | Updated African Origin model |
| | B) | Multiple Dispersal model |
| | C) | Multiregional Evolution model |
| | D) | Recent African Origin model |
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Which of the following is NOT a difficulty associated with the debate over modern human origins? |
| | A) | There is contradictory and geographically limited fossil evidence. |
| | B) | Newer genetic information complicates previous interpretations. |
| | C) | Homo sapiens is a relatively young species. |
| | D) | The positioning of the origin of our species has great consequence in evolutionary and philosophical contexts. |
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Which updated model explicitly states that the speciation event took place approximately 1.7 million years ago, not 100,000 and 200,000 years ago? |
| | A) | Updated African Origin model |
| | B) | Multiple Dispersal model |
| | C) | Multiregional Evolution model |
| | D) | Recent African Origin model |
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Which of the following is an assumption of the Multiple Dispersal model of human evolution? |
| | A) | Humans are the result of a speciation event in the late Pleistocene in Africa. |
| | B) | There was a near continuous dispersal of human populations from Africa in the last 200,000 years. |
| | C) | There were three major dispersals of human populations from Africa in the last 1.7 million years. |
| | D) | Modern humans are the most recent morphological form in a species, Homo sapiens, that has been around for nearly 2 million years. |
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What is the point where the two halves of the mandible contact one another? |
| | A) | Mandibular symphysis |
| | B) | Canine fossa |
| | C) | Retromolar gap |
| | D) | Postorbital constriction |
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