This is Jeopardy

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This is Jeopardy

• Human Evolution

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Final Jeopardy
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C1-100-The answer is
What two characteristics are common to all
primates?
Binocular vision and movable fingers and toes
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C1-200-The answer is
Why was the discovery of Lucy so important?
Showed that bipedalism came before a large brain
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C1-300-The answer is
Name three prosimian primates
Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers
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C1-400-The answer is
What one thing do scientists look at on a fossil
to determine whether it is a hominid?
If the bones indicate bipedalism
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C1-500-The answer is
Which hominid species had the most sophisticated
tools?
Homo sapiens
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C2-100-The answer is
The earliest evidence of modern Homo sapiens came
from sites in
Africa
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C2-200-The answer is
Were all australopithecines bipedal?
yes
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C2-300-The answer is
Do modern humans belong to the same genus as the
australopithecines?
No modern humans belong to the genus homo
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C2-400-The answer is
Where did Neanderthals live?
Europe mainly in the area of France
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C2-500-The answer is
Why were the finger drawings in the caves in
Australia significant?
They demonstrated the ability to think abstractly
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C3-100-The answer is
The oldest hominid fossils dated to 4.5 million
years ago are known as?
Ardipithecus Ramidus
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C3-200-The answer is
What was Homo habilis known for?
Making tools
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C3-300-The answer is
What does Prehensile mean?
The ability to grasp
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C3-400-The answer is
What was the purpose of the sagittal crest?
To attach big jaw muscles
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C3-500-The answer is
What information can you get from fossilized
skull fragments?
Size of brain, whether they had a brow ridge or
sagittal crest.
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C4-100-The answer is
What information can you get from fossilized
teeth?
Diet, wear patterns can tell you about other
activity (animal skins), what the environment was
like from their diet
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C4-200-The answer is
What are three characteristics unique to
anthropoid primates?
Well developed collar bones Rotating shoulder
joints Opposable thumb Similar dental
formula Large brain to body size
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C4-300-The answer is
Name anatomical features that support bipedalism.
Cup shaped pelvis S-shaped spine Foramen magnum
at bottom of skull Short aligned toes Stiff knee
below body
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C4-400-The answer is
What are the advantages of being a biped?
Use of hands for carrying children and food, for
protection, for feeding, for play or gesture Less
heat loss Able to travel farther more efficient
locomotion
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C4-500-The answer is
How did bipedalism increase fitness?
Able to eat more efficiently with hands Better
able to take care of/protect young Able to see
farther for food or predators
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C5-100-The answer is
Summarize the multiregional hypothesis.
Modern humans evolved in parallel worldwide from
Homo erectus must have gene flow between
populations
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C5-200-The answer is
Explain the African origin hypothesis
Modern humans originated in Africa 100,000
200,000 years ago and then migrated into the rest
of the world.
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C5-300-The answer is
When it comes to hominids, what is the
relationship between body size and brain size?
Direct proportion bigger body bigger brain
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C5-400-The answer is
Compare the skull of a human with that of a
gorilla.
Gorilla brow ridge, prognathic face, foramen
magnum at back of skull, sagittal crest, u-shaped
jaw Human small face, no brow ridge, flat face
under skull, V-shaped jaw, foramen magnum at
bottom, no sagittal crest Both have similar
dental formula
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C6-500-The answer is
How were Neanderthals different from Cro-Magnons?
Neanderthals had heavy bones, thick brow ridges,
large protruding teeth, shorter but very heavily
built
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Final Jeopardy
What was the final theory in the Neanderthal
movie? What evidence do scientists have to
support it? What evidence disputes it?

• 1. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon interbred
• Skeleton of 4 yr. old boy found that dates 3000
  years after Neanderthal. Skull similar to
  Cro-Magnon but skeleton similar to Neanderthal
• Dispute there is no DNA evidence of Neanderthal
  genes in our sequences.

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