This primate was a diurnal quadruped with a mixture of money and ape features: its lower molars had five cusps like an ape? its skull had forward-facing eye sockets protected by a bony wall? an endocast of the cranium reveals that it had a visual cortex larger than that found in Prosimians, but the brain was smaller than that of more recent anthropoids? and it had marked sexual dimorphism and
was no bigger than a modern house cat. It is a:
a. Dryopithecus.
b. Ardipithecus.
c. Homo habilis.
d. Aegyptopithecus.
e. Australopithecus afarensis.
d
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________ is/are NOT characteristic of a typical Neandertal skull.
A. Huge front teeth B. Small nasal cavities C. An average cranial capacity larger than that of modern humans D. A broad face E. A large brow ridge
Once granted a chief, you always maintained this status until death.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
If the dates from Sangiran, Mojokerto, and Dmanisi are correct, by 1.6 to 1.8 million years ago Homo erectus people were to be found in
A) Africa and Europe but not Asia B) Africa to southeastern Europe and Southeast Asia C) India only D) Java and China only E) Africa only
The study of changes in phenotype that are not related to changes in the DNA and that may result from the interaction between the genotype and the environment:
a. ?homeoplasty. b. epigenetics. c. ?menarche. d. ?pleiogenetic. e. ?adaptation.