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The Neandertals lived mostly in:
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Europe
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South Africa
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Asia
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The Neandertals lived ________________ years ago.
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460,000-410,000
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130,000-28,000
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20,000-10,000
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When some paleoanthropologists classify Neandertals as Homo neanderthalensis, they are implying that these people were:
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in a different species from modern humans
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a different variety of modern humans
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c)
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not humans
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The first discoveries of Neandertal fossils were in:
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Germany in 1856
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England in the 1880's
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several Western Europe countries during the early 1800's.
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Why weren't the Neandertal fossils recognized as the bones of an earlier form of human until the 1860's?
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The concept of evolution was not widely accepted by scientists until then.
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The existence of the bones was kept secret until then.
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Charles Darwin was strongly opposed to the idea.
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A nearly complete Neandertal skeleton was discovered at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France in 1908 and analyzed by Marcellin Boule from 1911 to 1913. Which of the following statements is true of that find?
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It resulted in nearly half a century of incorrect
assumptions about Neandertals.
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It was misinterpreted to be a relatively modern human, possibly an old Roman.
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It was really a woman who had very likely died in child birth.
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Compared to modern Europeans, Neandertals were generally:
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taller
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heavier boned and more muscular
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less able to walk bipedally
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a and b
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Which of the following statements is true of Neandertals?
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Their brains were smaller on average than the brains of modern humans.
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They had pointed chins like most modern Homo sapiens.
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They had relatively large brow ridges and noses.
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Which of the following statements is true of human evolution?
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All parts of the human body evolved simultaneously into our modern form. |
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The human brain increased to the modern size by 2.5 million years ago.
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There was a period of little or no growth in the human brain size beginning around 1.8 million years ago, lasting until about
800,000 years ago.
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"Encephalization" is another word for:
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the brain increasing in size over and beyond that explainable by an increase in body size
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punctuated evolution
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mosaic pattern of evolution
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| 11. |
Which of the following evidence has been put forward recently in support of the contention that Neandertals were members of
the same species as
Homo sapiens?
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The fact that there are no anatomical
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The discovery that 1-4% of the DNA in modern Europeans and Asians came from
Neandertal |
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neither of the above
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Which of the following statements is true of the Neandertals?
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Their technology was not sophisticated enough to allow them to remain in Europe during an ice age.
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They are still living in some areas of Europe.
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They abandoned Europe after 75,000 years ago when the last major ice age began.
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none of the above
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