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Chapter 16: Primate Evolution

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

 
   
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