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ASB 222 Exam #2 (90
questions and answers)

What are the pros and cons of language? - answer
- Pros: It has large samples
- Cons: It only consists of modern data and has
unknown relationship to genetics


What are the pros and cons of skeletons and
fossils? - answer - Pros: Ancient samples
- Cons: Spotty coverage and unknown relationship
to genetics


What are the pros and cons of modern DNA? -
answer - Pros: Large samples
- Cons: Modern data only and is the end result of
historical process


What are the pros and cons of ancient DNA? -
answer - Pros: Ancient samples
- Cons: Spotty coverage and complex
interpretations

,What are the characteristics of homo erectus? -
answer - Dates back to 1.9 million years ago to
70,000 years ago
- Highly anatomically variable with a thicker skull
and larger brow ridges
- First out of Africa
- First one's to look like us


What are the characteristics of homo
neanderthalensis? - answer - Dates back from
250,000 - 40,000
- Restricted range
- Large brain and skulls
- Shorter, thicker, and stockier body type
- Has sophisticated cultural and symbolic behaviors
- Burials
-Contemporaries with homo sapiens for 5,000
years
- Low population density, inbreeding, and
cannibalism


What are the characteristics of homo sapiens? -
answer - Dates back from 150,000 - 200,000
- Evolved from East Africa

, - Large brains, smaller faces, thinner bones,
rounded skulls, and has chins


What are the characteristics of homo florensiensis?
- answer - Dates back to 700.000 - 50,000 -
18,000
- First discovered in Flores, Indonesia in Liang Bua
Cave in 2003
- 3.5 - 4 ft tall, small brains, archaic features
- More primitive stone tools


What are the characteristics of denisovans? -
answer - Dates back to at least 50,000 years ago
- Discovered in central Asia, Altai Mountains in
2010 from 2 teeth and 1 finger bone
- Anciet DNA suggests distinct from Neanderthals
and modern humans
- Highly variable populations
- Diverged 1 mya from modern humans


What are the contexts in which we find our
ancestors? - answer - Eaten by carnivores
- Eaten by humans (cannibalism)

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