Based on hand anatomy, robust australopithecines may have __________

a. never used tools
b. been among the earliest makers of stone tools
c. been limited to using natural objects as tools
d. been clumsier tool makers than contemporary gracile australopithecines


Answer b

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A study comparing Japanese and American facial expressions found that __________.

A) the two had similar expressions in public, but the American participants were more expressive when they thought they were alone B) participants of both cultural groups were careful to mask their feelings in front of authority figures C) participants of the two cultural groups had nearly identical facial expressions, both in public and in private D) the two had similar expressions in private, but the Japanese participants tried to mask their feelings in front of authority figures

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How have paleoanthropologists been able to identify right-handedness, and thus the possible development of language, in ancient hominins?

a. Fossils that have more robust right arms b. Endocasts that have larger right hemispheres c. Patterns in flakes from the production of stone tools d. Objects found in the right hands of hominin burials

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The variants of a morpheme are called:

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