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What is culture? correct answers The Shared beliefs and customs and values shared by a group of people that influence their behaviours and interpret experience.
To what group of animals do humans belong to? correct answers Primate Order
When and why did human culture evolve? correct answers W...
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What is culture? correct answers The Shared beliefs and customs and values shared by a group of
people that influence their behaviours and interpret experience.
To what group of animals do humans belong to? correct answers Primate Order
When and why did human culture evolve? correct answers When early humans started eating
meat and making stone tools which date back between 2-2.5 million years ago.
When did the human brain reach the size it is today? correct answers 200,000 years ago
What did humans evolve and what did the evolve from? correct answers They evolved from
apelike primates that existed about 8-15 million years ago. By 4 million years ago they we
walking on two legs upright but behaviour still like a chimp.
What is Natural Selection correct answers the evolutionary process by which those individuals of
a species that are best adapted to their environment are the ones that are most likely to survive
and reproduce
The term adaption refers to correct answers the process an organism undergoes to adjust to their
environment
How did the sensory organs and brain evolve from primates to modern day humans? correct
answers Sense of smell decline and sight became highly developed. Colour vision. The brain
became larger.
In which primates are problem solving skills found in? correct answers Chimps, orangutans,
bonobos,
Whats an example of a tool chimps made? correct answers -They took twigs and took the leaves
off then dug around for bugs with the twigs in the dirt.
-Cracking nuts with stones
Which two primates are our closest living relatives? correct answers gorillas and chimpanzees
What is paleoanthropology? correct answers the study of extinct members of homo sapiens
Hominid? correct answers two legged primates including humans
When was the first hominid correct answers 4.4-5.8 million years ago
what is hominin correct answers a group of hominids of family
, the first group of hominids (hominin) were called? correct answers Australopithecus
What is Homo habilis? correct answers Handy-man first hominids to use tools and earliest
species of homo
oldawan tools are? correct answers first identifiable stone tools
Paleolithic is also known as ____________________. correct answers Old Stone Age
The transition to eating flesh correct answers being bipedal made it easier to travel longer
distances to scavenge for food, and eating meat was more filling and less time consuming. Also
contributed to making brains larger
What is Homo erectus? correct answers First one found called the java man. The Species that
comes directly after homo Habilis. Had larger brains than homo habilisMigrated out of Africa to
Asia 500,000-1 million years ago. Discovered fire.
What are homo ergaster correct answers the African homo erectus.
three uses for fire? correct answers warmth, cooking, scaring predators
Homo sapiens correct answers 800,000 and 120, 000 years ago. The modern Human Species
what are homo heidelbergensis? correct answers appearance of Neanderthals 500,000-800,000
years ago
Neanderthals correct answers 125,000 years ago to 30,000 years ago
What is the big argument in modern day anthropology about where homo sapiens evolved from?
correct answers Whether it started with homo erectus, then homo ergaster, then homo spapiens,
or if they evolved from one single place in Africa from the neanderthals. (eve hypothesis)
When and how did humans evolve? correct answers The human species evolved from ancient
hominins dated roughly to 7 million years ago.
chronological order of homo sapiens evolution? correct answers Australopithecus
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus/Homo ergaster
homo hiedlbergenis / archaic homo sapiens
homo sapiens
What is language? correct answers A way to communicate using sounds, gestures, or writing.
We also convey meaning through use of pause or emphasis on words.
Mazeteco in Mexico use what to communicate? correct answers whistling
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