Bipedal - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Megalosaurus Found fragments in England. 1st one to be scientifically discovered. Bipedal predaceous (theropod) Iguanodon first found fragments in Sussex England. Found the 1st complete skeleton in coal mines in Belgium later on Hylaeosaurus Armored reptile/Ankylosaurus. Found fragments in England "Dinosauria" - who came up with it, what it means, and concept of this clade/year Who: Richard Owen Meaning: "Deinos" - terrible, "sauros" - lizard/reptile Clade: bony sockets, large sa...

Anthropology 105 Exam 3 Latest Update Graded A+ Chronology of Hominin Evolution: Miocene (23 - 5 m.y.a.) (Tertiary Period) Chronology of Hominin Evolution: Pleistocene (2 m.y.a. to 10,000 BP) (Ice ages) Chronology of Hominin Evolution: Recent (10,000 BP to present The most important epochs for study of hominin evolution are the? Miocene, Pleistocene, Recent Hominin: Term Term hominin used to designate the human line after its split from ancestral chimps Definition: Hominid...

What are the only animals to lack symmetry? - Answer-Sponges What are the 2 types of symmetry? - Answer-radial and bilateral What is radial symmetry? - Answer-symmetry around a central axis (can be any halves on a 2-D plane) think of how you cut a pizza, an example can be a sea anemone. What is bilateral symmetry? - Answer-Right and left halves that are mirror images How do small unicellular organisms take in nutrients? - Answer-diffusion Why is cell size constrained? - Answer-Surface-to-v...

Amniotes have - Four limbs Fused pelvic girdle ears no gills Amphibians have - Absence of scales shelled egg Angiosperms - flowering plants Annelids are - segmented worms Arthropods are - First land animals Arthropods are characterized by - segmented body (insects, arachnids, crustaceans) Australopiths age - 4-2 mya Bilatera - most animals belong to this class. bilaterians have: - symmetric form digestive tract one way digestive system birds have - wings with keratin featherslack...

ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 3 WVU WITH CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS what makes us human? Bipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism stresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls Early hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency Compared with the young of other primates, human children h...

Primate Ans: Member of the mammalian order Primates, including prosmians, monkeys, apes, and humans, defined by a suite of anatomical and behavioral traits Evolution Ans: A change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations Biological anthropology Ans: The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an evolutionary framework; sometimes called physical anthropology (origin of modern species/biological variation) Hominin Ans: A member of ...

Primate Ans: Member of the mammalian order Primates, including prosmians, monkeys, apes, and humans, defined by a suite of anatomical and behavioral traits Evolution Ans: A change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations Biological anthropology Ans: The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an evolutionary framework; sometimes called physical anthropology (origin of modern species/biological variation) Hominin Ans: A member of ...

BIOB100 Exam 2 Questions With Accurate Answers. Birds- Scientists interested - answerRobust flight, wide distribution - research- conservation Birds- Origin - answerTheropods Mammal- First fossil Record - answerCynodontia Birds- Characteristics - answerVertebrates, bipedal, heterotrophs, endothermic Function of feathers - answer- flight - insulation - waterproofing - signaling - protection Mammals- Characteristics - answer1. Milk production 2. Fur 3. Large brains 4. Specialized tee...

Gracile Australopithecines - 3.5-<2mya - A. sediba - A. africanus Possible hominins - 7- 4.4mya Robust hominins - 2.7-1.2mya - Paranthropus robustus - P. boisei - P. aethiopicus Early hominins - 4.2-2.5mya - Australopithecus garhi - A. afarensis - A. anamensis - Kenyanthropus Early Australopithecines Traits - bipeds (but retain some arboreal adaptations) - sexually dimorphic - brain only slightly larger on average than chimpanzee's - 4.2-2.5mya Australopithecus afarensis Traits - 4-3mya...

PHSC 102 Life in the Universe Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following appears most favored by natural selection? A. intelligence B. bipedal locomotion C. opposable thumbs D. live birth E. binocular vision - Answer-A. intelligence What important molecules of life did Miller and Urey brew up? A. amino acids B. fatty acids C. RNA D. antacids E. lean acids - Answer-A. amino acids Organic molecules are: A. not found outside our solar system. B. silicon-bas...