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The rate of environmental change, rate of change in geographic barriers, and effectivenss of the group's adaptive response all helped to determine |
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whether evolution was fast or slow for hominids |
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the hominid fossil record seems to support a punctuated equilibrium, which means |
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there were long periods of little change, interrupted by sudden evolutionary jumps |
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Unlike Acheulian tool-making technology, the Upper Paleolithic technology |
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involved the joining of reworked blades to other materials to form composite tools. |
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What trends in the archaeological record mark the changeover from the mousterian to the Upper Paleolithic? |
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an increase in the number of distinct tool types |
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Which had the largest cranial capacity? |
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Homo sapiens neanderthalensis |
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Anatomically modern humans appeared in Western Europe after |
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compared to Neandertals, archaic H. sapiens had all of the following except |
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Prior to the ending of the Wurm glacial period (17,000-12,000 years ago), European Homo sapiens depended for food most heavily on |
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Which of the following changes occurred during the Mesolithic? |
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increasing dependence on a greater variety of collected foods |
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What age was just prior to the changeover to food production in Europe and the Near East? |
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the upper paleolithic is associated with what tool type? |
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Neandertals are believed to have coexisted in time with |
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homo erectus is roughly associated with the |
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What is the charactersitic Acheulian tool? |
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What was the dominant view of neandertal in the early 1900s? |
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Neandertal was a brutish "ape-man" not ancestral to humans |
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About which of the following statements do anthropologists agree most? |
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Neandertal left no descendants among modern humans |
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What was first discovered in a German valley in 1856? |
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What theory was based on research done in 1987 on mitochondrial DNA from 147 human placentas? |
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Everyone alive today descended from a woman dubbed "eve". |
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Discoveries of Upper Paleolithic tools suggest that |
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Most cave paintings or cave art found in southern France and northeastern Spain is associated with |
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