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Anth 102 Final Exam Practice Questions
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Fall 2022 Final Exam Practice Questions | Katarina EvansFinal Exam Practice Questions
1. Which of the following is true of Sivapithecus?
A. Shares several derived cranial features with living baboons (Papio)
B. Shares several derived cranial features with living orangutans (Pongo)
C. Has a very rounded skull
D. Has an occipital bun
2. Tetrapod evolution represents:
A. the evolutionary transition of life in water to life on land
B. the evolutionary transition of life on land to life in water
C. the extinction of all fish species
D. the transformation of legs into fins of lobe-finned fish
3. Who was the first hominin to migrate out of Africa?
A. Dryopithecus
B. Homo habilis
C. Homo erectus
D. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis)
E. Homo sapiens
4. Which of the following is an example of absolute dating?
A. Chemical dating
B. Radiometric dating
C. Stratigraphic correlation
D. Cultural dating
5. The obligate hominin characteristics are:
A. Canine reduction and tool use
B. Canine reduction and a large brain
C. Bipedalism and culture
D. Bipedalism and canine reduction
E. Bipedalism and tool use
6. What does the presence of a large sagittal crest indicate?
A. the individual was involved in a lot of male-male competition
B. the individual suffered hardship during its life
C. the individual relied on difficult to chew/process foods
D. the individual had a relatively large brain
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7. Adapoids:
A. are likely the ancestor of most living strepsirrhines.
B. are likely the ancestor of most living haplorhines.
C. share many features with living lemurs and lorises.
D. A&C
E. All of the above
8. The Angiosperm Radiation hypothesis suggests that:
A. Primate traits evolved in response to preying on insects and other small creatures.
B. Primate traits evolved in response to the development of fruit-bearing angiosperm
plants.
C. Predicts that the earliest primates should be mainly frugivorous.
D. A&C
E. B&C
9. Apidium:
A. is the possible ancestor of platyrhines
B. is the possible ancestor of catarrhines
C. has a 2.1.3.3 dental formula
D. A&C
E. All of the above.
10. Aegyptopithecus:
A. is the possible ancestor of platyrhines
B. is the possible ancestor of catarrhines
C. has a 2.1.3.3 dental formula
D. A&C
E. All of the above.
11. Compared to gracile australopithecines (Australopithecus), robust australopithecines
(Paranthropus) is characterized by:
A. Larger sagittal crest
B. Smaller posterior dentition
C. Smaller attachment for a smaller temporal muscle
D. Smaller zygomatics (cheekbones)
12. According to the Law of Superposition, which of the following would you expect to
appear in the topmost layer of rock?
A. Fish
B. Amphibians
C. Dinosaurs
D. Old world monkeys
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