Name: Toepfer - R

Name: Toepfer - R

Lucy Analysis (p.37)

NOTE: Analysis questions are designed for you to think critically about the activity that you just did and relate those experiences to build your scientific knowledge. Be sure to think about the class activities, readings, and/or labs we just did and include information or experiences from them into your responses.

Use the information from your description from the “Lucy” activity to answer the following questions:

1.  Compare hominids from Lucy’s lifetime to your own. Come up with 3 similarities and 3 differences.

Lucy / Similarities / You
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2.  Do you think there have been more changes in physical characteristics of the body (such as hands, feet, head, posture) or more changes in how hominids lived (types of shelter, ways of getting around, ways of gathering food)? Explain.

3. Use the information in the Need To Know box (p.38) to help you answer these questions:

a. Which aspects of your descriptions of Lucy (from your journal and 1-2 above) did you base on evidence?

b. Which aspects of your descriptions of Lucy (from your journal and 1-2 above) were inferences related to evidence?

c. Which aspects of your descriptions of Lucy (from your journal and 1-2 above) were guesses?