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ANTH 170 Final Exam Questions andAnswers (latest Update 2024)
bipedalism - Correct Answer ✅ walking on two legs
what distinguishes humans from other primates? - Correct
Answer ✅ art, religion, bipedalism, large brain size, culture,
tools and tech, language and symbolic thinking
mosaic evolution - Correct Answer ✅ humans evolved in
piecemeal fashion w different functional systems evolving at
different times
early 20th century - Correct Answer ✅ most scientists
believe that humans evolved in Europe and that the initial
change was larger brain size
Auxleys Differences (Humans v Apes) - Correct Answer ✅
larger brain, bipedal, reliance on material culture, symbolic
language, manipulative hands, smaller teeth
the taung child - Correct Answer ✅ small brain but
evidence of bipedal behavior (mosaic evolution)
, ANTH 170 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (latest Update 2024)
Hominins - Correct Answer ✅ defined by the habitual
bipedal adaption (earliest hominins - 5-7 mya)
habitual bipedalism - Correct Answer ✅ somewhere
between quadrupedalism and biped.
obligatory bipedalism - Correct Answer ✅ it's now the only
mode of locomotion that we can efficiently use, anything else
is too slow or difficult
anterior foramen magnum - Correct Answer ✅ if you hold
the skull up level so that you are looking at the back of the
head and you can clearly see the foramen then its posteriorly
positioned. anterior means front so the foramen is towards
the front of the skull in bipeds
lumbar lordosis - Correct Answer ✅ shifts center of gravity
over the pelvis; a bipedal adaption
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