This quiz titled 'Bio 2 - Unit 4 Test B - Hominid Evolution' focuses on the evolutionary history of hominids. It assesses knowledge on key species like Australopithecus africanus, Homo habilis, and Homo sapiens, and explores significant historical frauds in the field.
Australopithecus aferensis
Australopithecus africanus
Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
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Homo neanderthalensis
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
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Homo neanderthalensis
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
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Germany
Great Britain
Ethiopia
South Africa
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Lemur
Gorilla
Koala
Orangutan
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Homo sapiens
Australopithecus africanus
Lemur
Homo erectus
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Homo sapiens
Baboon
Lemur
Tarsier
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Prosimians
Old world monkeys
Hominids
Gorillas
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Prehensile tails
Walking upright
Opposable thumbs
Large brains
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Homo erectus
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo habilis
Homo robustus
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Homo erectus
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo habilis
Paranthropus boisei
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Australopithecus and Homo
Africanus and habilis
Homo and sapiens
Australopithecus and Anthropida
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Bipedal locomotion
Language
Art and imagination
Large brain
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They only buried the heads of the dead.
Scavengers can carry off the smaller bones much more easily.
Skulls tend to look more like rocks.
Other hominids cannibalize their dead.
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Help determine the age of the fossil
Keep the fossil from rotting
Provide visual context for where the fossil was found
Provide a keep-sake of the discovery
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Fossilized bones
Endocasts of the brains
Molecular clocks
Written historical records
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Arthropods
Mammals
Vertebrates
Primates
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Orangutans
Chimpanzees
Humans
Gorillas
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Its fossils were found in Africa
Its limbs were human-like.
Its brain was much larger.
Its thumb opposed its other fingers.
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Modern humans evolved from chimpanzees.
Homo sapiens has the largest brain of any hominid so far.
Modern humans arose about 200,000 years ago.
Humans are the only living bipedal species.
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Hominid
Prosimian
Anthropoid
Ape
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Lemur
Loris
Tarsier
Orangutan
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Monkeys do not have tails.
Monkeys have tails but apes do not.
Monkeys cannot use tools.
Apes have small brains.
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Cavemen coexisted with dinosaurs.
Neanderthatls coexisted with Homo habilis.
Upright walking evolved before large brains.
Upright walking evolved after large brains.
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Africa
Egypt
France
North America
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Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Australopithecus africanus
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Australopithecus
Ardipithecus
Zinjanthropus
Gorilla
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Binocular vision
Mobile limbs
Bipedalism
Flattened face
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Homo neanderthalensis
Homo habilis
Australopithecus aferensis
Zinjanthropus boisei
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Neander Valley, Germany
Silicon Valley, USA
Valley of the Kings, Egypt
Ethiopia
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