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ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 3 WVU WITH CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS what makes us human? Bipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism stresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls Early hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency Compared with the young of other primates, human children h...

what makes us human? : Bipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism : stresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls : Early hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency : Compared with the young of other primates, human children have a long period of childhood dependency, du...

Bio 182 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following would be an example of convergent evolution? A. Hummingbird Bill sizes change in the shape to easily fit into flowers B. Competition among finches of Galapagos islands causing speciation C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and South America both developing long narrow skulls D. Maple trees migrating northward after glaciers started to recede in North America - Answer-C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and ...

Anthropology 105 Exam 3 Latest Update Graded A+ Chronology of Hominin Evolution: Miocene (23 - 5 m.y.a.) (Tertiary Period) Chronology of Hominin Evolution: Pleistocene (2 m.y.a. to 10,000 BP) (Ice ages) Chronology of Hominin Evolution: Recent (10,000 BP to present The most important epochs for study of hominin evolution are the? Miocene, Pleistocene, Recent Hominin: Term Term hominin used to designate the human line after its split from ancestral chimps Definition: Hominid...

Discovering Psychology the Science of Mind 1st Edition Test Bank by Cacioppo Freberg Chapter One: The Science of Mind - The Discipline of Psychology MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which of the following best describes the mind? a. The basis of rational thought c. The embodiment of the soul b. The hidden instinctual self d. The brain and its activities ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Remember REF: What Is Psychology? OBJ: LO1 2. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is called ____. a. introspecti...

Test Bank for an Introduction to Brain and Behavior 6th Edition Bryan Kolb Chapter 1 – What are the origins of Brain and Behaviour? 1. Brain abnormalities can be related to: A) 500 disorders. B) 1000 disorders. C) 1500 disorders. D) more than 2,000 disorders. 2. All the nerve processes radiating out beyond the brain and spinal cord as well as all the neurons outside the brain and spinal cord constitute the: A) nervous system. B) central nervous system. C) peripheral nervous system...

Bio 182 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following would be an example of convergent evolution? A. Hummingbird Bill sizes change in the shape to easily fit into flowers B. Competition among finches of Galapagos islands causing speciation C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and South America both developing long narrow skulls D. Maple trees migrating northward after glaciers started to recede in North America - Answer-C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters an...

what makes us human? - ANSWERBipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism - ANSWERstresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls - ANSWEREarly hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency - ANSWERCompared with the young of other primates, human children have a long period of chil...

Hominids correct answers the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans plus all their immediate ancestors) Paleolithic correct answers This is the Old stone age period group, they performed human burials, acquired fire, language, hand tools, belief in the great goddess emerges, cave paintings seen, and were around from 100,000-c.--> 12,500 BC Mesolithic correct answers This is the Middle Stone Age, where people ac...

1. A person with an ischio-pubic ramus ridge is male. False 2. One of the drawbacks of using the pubic symphysis to estimate adult age is that: It is often damaged 3. It is easy to assess the age of an individual who is over 60 years old with great accuracy. False 4. Young individuals usually have a pubic symphysis that is: Billowed and with a poorly defined outline 5. The sternal rib ends of older individuals are: Porous with a jagged rib end 6. What important age sensitive anato...