Unit 5 quiz (Human evolution)

What is the name for the period in which human activity has been the dominant influence on Earth s climate and the natural environment?

Anthropocene epoch

Which region of the brain is associated with speech development?

Broca's area

Which of the following is associated with the Lower Paleolithic?

H. habilis and the Oldowan tool industry

______________, or brain lateralization, is a cognitive development that can be inferred through right- or left-hand dominance in the construction and use of early hominin tools.

Handedness

The Nariokotome Boy was determined to be which species?

Homo ergaster

Which species was long regarded as the earliest hominin to use stone tools?

Homo habilis

Which statement BEST explains how H. floresiensis could have a brain the size of an orange (380 cc) and yet make tools, hunt, and use fire?

Island dwarfism provides an evolutionary explanation for the small body size.

Which of the following does NOT explain the variation of skin pigmentation in humans?

Mendelian heredity

What is the oldest known stone tool industry?

Oldowan

Venus figurines, cave art, and artifacts made with bone and antler are largely associated with what time period?

Upper Paleolithic

Acheulean tools were modified on both sides, resulting in a symmetrical tool with two faces, also known as _____________.

a biface

What is the FOXP2 gene?

a gene that is linked to the ability to understand complex language

The long history humans share with lice is a good example of _____________.

coevolution

Which of these is NOT characteristic of H. erectus?

increasing prognathism

What best explains the loss of hair in humans, ultimately leading to the wearing of clothes?

thermoregulation

What genetic material found in the mitochondria is passed on only through the mother?

mtDNA

What is another way to refer to Mitochondrial Eve?

mtMRCA

The variations seen in modern humans are largely the result of adaptations to the environment. Which of these is NOT an example of an adaptation?

the prevalence of hemophilia in certain population groups