Landscape Ecology: Human Evolution
Instructions
Welcome to your first (Test 1) which is based on the first weeks work on Primate and Human Evolution.
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Total Number of Questions / 28
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Questions
Word Bank, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
1. A Neanderthal skull was first discovered in Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar in 1848, eight years prior to the "original" discovery in a limestone quarry of the Neander Valley. In which country does the Neander Valley occur?
Correct / ChoiceX / Germany
England
Kenya
Java
South Africa
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Matching Drag and Drop, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
2. Match the skull in the diagram to the species
Choice / MatchAustralopithecus afarensis / 1
Australopithecus africanus / 2
Homo habilis / 3
Homo erectus / 4
Homo neandertalensis / 5
Homo sapiens / Not in diagram
Matching Drag and Drop, 6 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
3. Match the cranial capacity in cubic centimeters to the hominid
Choice / Match1512 / Homo neanderthalensis
1355 / Homo sapiens
1016 / Homo erectus
1198 / Homo heidelbergensis
552 / Homo habilis
300 / Homo floresensis
Multiple Response, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
4. The Piltdown Man is still possibly the most famous "Scientific Hoax". In constructing this hoax the perpetrator ensured that the following was done to convine the authenticity of the “fossil find”
Correct / ChoiceX / A genuine "old" cranium was used (about 50 000 years)
X / The skull cranium was especially thickened and had been deliberately broken into pieces to make it more
X / The cranium and jaw bone had been deliberately stained to look older
X / The teeth (from the lower jaw was fron an Orangutan) had been filed down to more resemble human teeth
X / Cranium and jaw processes (points of articulation) had been deliberated broken so that it appeared to be from the same individual and work together.
X / Other fossil pieces from different co-existing animals and flint implements were introduced to the scene to add authernticity to the fossil dig.
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Hotspot, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
5. On the map indicate where the earliest modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved? (On the map indicate where the earliest modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved?)
Hotspot location: Top: 229, Left: 46, Width: 41, Height: 40
Matching Drag and Drop, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
6. Match the hominid fossil with the country where the fossil was first collected (type specimen)
Choice / MatchAustalopithecus afarensis (now put in the genus Praeanthropus) / Ethiopia
Homo erectus / South East Asia
Zinjanthropus / Tanzania
Australopithecus africanus / South Africa
Homo neanderthalensis / Germany
Multiple Response, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
7. Which of the following is true for the fossil skull known as "Piltdown Man"? (Which charactersitics accompanied the fossil skull known as Piltdown Man)
Correct / ChoiceX / The fosil skull showed possessed a relatively large cranial capacity
The fossil skull possessed a lower jaw that was similar to a modern human jaw
X / The fossil skull was discovered by Charles Dawson
X / The fossil skull was at the time of being discovered considered to be about 500 000 years old
X / This fossil contradicted the fossils finds at the time, in that it showed that the cranial capacity was one of the earliest evolutionary steps from ape-like to human-like development
X / This discovery was meet with fairly considerable skepticism when announced to the world in the early 1900's
Multiple Choice, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
8. Homo neanderthalensis was most different to modern humans with respect to (Homo neanderthalensis was most different to modern humans with respect to)
Correct / ChoiceBrain size
Height
Weight
X / Genetic composition
None of the above
Multiple Choice, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
9. Mitochondrial Eve is sometimes referred to as African Eve, and was an antomically modern human species that left Africa to invade the rest of the world around how many thousand years ago?
Correct / Choice50,000 years ago
X / 100,000 years ago
200,000 years ago
500,000 years ago
The concept of a Mitochondrial Eve of african origin has been disproven.
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Sequence Drag and Drop, 4 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
10. Accepting Modern Man (homo sapiens) evolved out of Africa (the Mitochondrial Eve hypothesis) organize the parts of the world that would have become invaded in sequence from first to last.
Correct orderMiddle East
Europe
North America
South America
Antarctica
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Matching Drag and Drop, 4 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
11. Match the species name to the popular name
Choice / MatchAustralopithecus africanus / Taung Child
Australopithecus afarensis / Lucy
Homo erectus / Java Man
Homo ergaster / Turkana Boy
Sequence Drag and Drop, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
12. Put the following animals in sequence from what is considered the most primitive to the most advanced
Correct orderLemurs
Gibbons
Orangutans
Gorillas
Chimpanzees
Humans
Word Bank, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
13. Olduvai Gorge is possibly the most famous fossil site for early hominids. In which country does Olduvai Gorge occur in ?
Correct / ChoiceKenya
South Africa
China
Indonesia
Ethiopia
X / None of the countries mentioned
Multiple Response, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
14. If a Neaderthal Man were to be reconstructed from genetic material and then lived as a noraml person in Cape Town wearing everyday clothes what anatomically features would strike you as being at least slightly "strange". In the picture a Neaderthal skeleton (left) is compared to a modern human skeleton (right) to help you decide.
Correct / ChoiceX / Voice
X / A rather pronounced eye brow ridge
X / Rather short stature
X / Rather a large nose
X / Would appear to have the build suitable for the local rugby club
Seemed to have a rather pronounced "haunched" back
Seems a bit bow-legged
Seems especially dim-witted
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Numeric, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
15. DNA similarity between humans and chimpanzees as a percentage is
(DNA similarity between humans and chimpanzees as a percentage is )
Acceptable numeric valuesBetween / 97 / 99
Multiple Choice, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
16. The fossil record has shown that in the same region more than one hominid species co existed with each other. Identify which homind combination is the most unlikely to have co-existed.
Correct / ChoiceHomo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens
Paranthropus boisei and Paranthropus robustus (Zinjanthropus)
Homo habilis and Paranthropus robustus (Zinjanthropus)
X / Homo sapiens and Australopithecus afarensis
Only choice A is correct the other answers are incorrect
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Matching Drag and Drop, 4 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
17. Match the hominid with the most suitable invention
Choice / MatchHomo erectus / Earliest use of fire
Homo habilis / Ealiest use of stone instrumments
Homo sapiens / Ealiest known art (rock paintings)
Homo neanderthalensis / Earliest ritual burial
Multiple Choice, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
18. The difference in genetic material between modern human and Neaderthal man is (The difference in genetic material between modern human and Neaderthal man is)
Correct / Choicealmost but not quite identical and therefore Nederthal is a possible ancestor of modern humans
is twice as different indicating that modern humans and Neaderthal probably interbred
is sufficiently similar such that Neaderthal can be considered a sub-species of Homo sapiens but it is uncertain whether it was an ancestor or inter-bred with modern humans
X / is four times different and consequently modern man and Neanderthal did not share a common ancestor or interbreed for at least 500,000 years
non of the above is correct
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Numeric, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
19. Modern humans arrive in Europe around how many thousand years? Please provide the full figure e.g. 150000 (The cranial capacity of Homo habilis)
Acceptable numeric valuesBetween / 50000 / 35000
Matching Drop-down, 6 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
20. Match the fossil with the person that named or discovered it?
Choice / MatchHomo habilis / Louis Leakey
Australopithecus africanus / Raymond Dart
Australopithecus afarensis / Donald Johanson
Homo erectus / Eugène Dubois
Homo sapiens / Carl Linnaeus
Homo neanderthalensis / Johann Karl Fuhlrott
Hotspot, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
21. Click on the individual that best represents Homo habilis
Hotspot location: Top: 60, Left: 335, Width: 135, Height: 398
Multiple Response, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
22. Raymond Dart claimed that the skull he found in South Africai n the early 1920's was an intermediate species between ape and man. His claim about this fossil find was mostly rejected by the scientific community at the time. Sir Arthur Keith (a leading figure in the field of human evolution) suggested that the skull belonged to a young ape, most likely from an infant gorilla. Identify which facts associated with this discovery are true. (Raymond Dart claimed that the skull he found in South Africain the early 1920's was an intermediate species between ape and man. His claim about this fossil find was mostly rejected by the scientific community at the time. Sir Arthur Keith (a leading figure in the field of human evolution) suggested that the skull belonged to a young ape, most likely from an infant gorilla. Identify which facts associated with this discovery are true.)
Correct / ChoiceX / Sir Arthur Keith rejected the evidence of the new skull since he still believed that Piltdown Man with is large cranum was the true link between apes and man.
X / Professor Raymond Dart was an "outsider" working in distance South Africa and therefore was unlikely to find anything notable
Raymond Dart's discovery was also later found to be a scientific hoax
X / Professor Darts was finding was not suported by Professor Robert Broom
Professor Darts was finding later to be correctly identified as skull of primate (confirming what Sir Arthur Keith's position)
Feedback when correct: Correct
Feedback when incorrect: Incorrect
Matching Drag and Drop, 4 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
23. Match the most similar species with each other based on cladograms and morphological features
Choice / MatchHomo habilis / Homo rudolfensis
Homo heidelbergensis / Homo neanderthalensis
Australopithecus afarensis / Australopithecus africanus
Homo erectus / Homo ergaster
Multiple Choice, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
24. The cranium KNM-ER 1470 represents which species?
Correct / ChoiceHomo neanderthalensis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo ergaster
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
X / Homo rudolfensis
Sequence Drag and Drop, 6 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
25. Arrange the hominids by their verified age from earliest to most modern
Correct orderHomo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Word Bank, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
26. Which was the first characteristic that marked the evolutionary turning point in the evolution of an animal that was ape like to becoming human?
Correct / ChoiceAn opposable thumb and an hand with a precision grip
A jaw that is changing from being adapted from a herbivorous to an omnivorous/carnivorous diet
Large and forward facing eyes
Significantly enlarged cranial capacity
A language
A culture and/or religon
Communal living
X / A bipedal stance
Hotspot, 2 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
27. Locate on the map where the fossil Eoanthropus dawsonii was discovered?
Hotspot location: Top: 92, Left: 308, Width: 22, Height: 18
Sequence Drop-down, 5 points, 1 attempt(s) permitted.
28. Homo floresiensis, which lived to about 12 TYA (announced 28 October 2004 in the science journal Nature), has been nicknamed hobbit for its small size, probably a result of Island dwarfing. Homo floresiensis is intriguing both for its size and its age, being by far the most recent species of Homo that does not lie along the direct evolutionary path of modern humans. Homo floresiensis is bot the smallest and lightest species of the genus homo. Organize the other species of Homo in a scale of increasing mass.
(Homo floresiensis, which lived to about 12 TYA (announced 28 October 2004 in the science journal Nature), has been nicknamed hobbit for its small size, probably a result of Island dwarfing. Homo floresiensis is intriguing both for its size and its age, being by far the most recent species of Homo that does not lie along the direct evolutionary path of modern humans. Homo floresiensis is bothe smallest and lightest species of homo. Organize the other species of Homo in a scale of increasing mass. )
Correct orderHomo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis