Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1656) was responsible for which of the following?
a. Establishing the antiquity of man by recognizing ancient handaxes associated with extinct mammal bones.
b. Promoting the concept of organic evolution at a time when most scholars rejected evolutionary thought.
c. Conducting intensive excavations aimed at resolving the question of human antiquity.
d. Calculating the age of the earth based on biblical genealogy, and concluding that Creation occurred on October 22, 4004 BC.
e. suggested the process by which modern people could have arisen from ancient primate ancestors.
d
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Australopithecines show __________
a. no reduction of the canine, but partial reduction of the diastema b. an essentially ape-like dentition c. some reduction of the canine and partial reduction or absence of the diastema d. some reduction of the canine, but an ape-like diastema
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