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Chapter 16: Primate Evolution

Practice Test
      
  1.A more humanlike hominid species, with a larger brain, that appeared about 1.6 million years ago is known as __________.  
  a.   Homo erectus  
  b.   Homo robustus  
  c.   Homo habilis  
  d.   Homo sapiens  
  Hint    
      
  2.A subgroup of primates that include monkeys and apes is the _________.  
  a.   quadrupeds  
  b.   australopithecine  
  c.   members of the genus Homo  
  d.   anthropoids  
  Hint    
      
  3.An adaptation that allows primates to grasp and cling to the branches of trees is the ___________.  
  a.   opposable thumb  
  b.   fingernail  
  c.   rotating forelimb  
  d.   ability to see in 3-D  
  Hint    
      
  4.Lucy settled a debate between scientists by showing that __________ developed before __________.  
  a.   stereovision ; large brains  
  b.   large brains ; bipedalism  
  c.   bipedalism ; opposable thumbs  
  d.   bipedalism ; large brains  
  Hint    
      
  5.Which of the following groups is theorized to have evolved first?  
  a.   humans  
  b.   Old World monkeys  
  c.   Homo erectus  
  d.   New World monkeys  
  Hint    
      
  6.Humanlike bipedal primates are __________.  
  a.   New World monkeys  
  b.   Prosimians  
  c.   Hominids  
  d.   Old World monkeys  
  Hint    
      
  7.Humans, including Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, and you are members of the species __________.  
  a.   Homo erectus  
  b.   Homo rubustus  
  c.   Homo habilis  
  d.   Homo sapiens  
  Hint    
      
  8.The ability to walk upright on two legs is an adaptation called __________.  
  a.   bipedalism  
  b.   prehensile grasping  
  c.   brachiation  
  d.   stereovision  
  Hint    
      
  9.A group of humans who were virtually identical to modern people were the __________.  
  a.   australopithecine  
  b.   Cro-Magnon  
  c.   Neanderthals  
  d.   cavemen  
  Hint    
      
  10.An adaptation of the New World monkeys that helps them keep their balance is __________.  
  a.   an extra finger  
  b.   stereovision  
  c.   a prehensile tail  
  d.   an opposable thumb  
  Hint    
      
  11.Which group of primates is considered to be the most primitive?  
  a.   anthropoids  
  b.   Old World monkeys  
  c.   prosimians  
  d.   New World monkeys  
  Hint    
      
  12.A group of humans who lived from 100 000 to about 35 000 years ago are the __________.  
  a.   Cro-Magnon  
  b.   Neanderthals  
  c.   australopithecine  
  d.   cavemen  
  Hint    
      
  13.What we define as culture apparently developed within __________.  
  a.   Old World monkeys  
  b.   the genus Homo  
  c.   the earliest hominids  
  d.   the earliest anthropoids  
  Hint    
      
  14.Early hominids that lived in Africa and had a combination of apelike and humanlike qualities were _________.  
  a.   members of the genus Homo  
  b.   australopithecine  
  c.   Cro-Magnon  
  d.   Neanderthals  
  Hint    
      
  15.The subgroup of primates that are small, tree-dwelling animals that look least like primates is the _________.  
  a.   New World monkeys  
  b.   Old World monkeys  
  c.   prosimians  
  d.   anthropoids  
  Hint    

 
   
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