Question

1. The first to have cave paintings ;

a) Neanderthals

b) chimpanzees

c) Australopithecus

d) homo habilis

2. The SRGAP2 gene is important in the development of :

a) the immune system

b) cortex development

c) placental development

d) body growth

e) speech

3. Members of a species can :

a) interbreed

b) produce fertile offspring

c) share similar genes

d) all of these

4. Geographic separation of populations of a species might lead to:

a) DNA stabilization

b) new species formation

c) becoming closer in morphology in the populations

d) changes in alleles between the populations  

e) b and d

5. A major advancement in thinking ability and complex behaviours was the

a) corpus striatum

b) corpus collosum

c) corpus spongiosum

d) corpus quadrigemina

e) none of these

6. The accepted date for this was about 800,000 years ago:

a) tool use

b) meat diet

c) brain enlargement

d) controlled fire usage

e) migration out of Africa

7. Cooking meat:

1. easier to digest
2. harder to digest
3. associated with homo habilis
4. associated with Australopithecus robustus

8. Elongated ilium is associated with bipedalism

1. true b) false

9. Apes have a U shaped palate:

1. true b) false

10. Upright but not too smart:

a) Neanderthals

b) Australopithecines

c) cro magnons

d) homo erectus

e) members of congress

11. An increase in surface area:

a) thalamus

b) gyri

c) cerebral aqueduct

d) subarachnoid space

e) corpora quadrigemina

12. Found in Asia about a million years ago:

a) A. africanus

b) A. afarensis

c) homo erectus

d) homo habilis

e) c and d

13. Haplogroups are:

a) haploid gametes

b) diploid gametes

c) specific groups of alleles

d) examples of genetic drift

e) none of these

Answer 1

The study oh the fossils and other evidences have provided with a lot of information about our prehistoric ancestors that led to further development and progress in the study of human evolution.