Starting with the work of Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin based his theory of human origins on which set of observations?
A. Humans are bipedal while other apes are not; humans have smaller canines than chimps, gorillas, or orangutans; humans are tool users; and humans have larger brains.
B. There was an excellent fossil record of human evolution from which Huxley and Darwin concluded that humans had a close evolutionary relationship with the African apes.
C. Humans are bipedal while other apes are not, humans have larger canines than other apes, humans are tool users, and humans have larger brains.
D. Since the fossil record known at the time linked humans and orangutans, both Huxley and Darwin assumed humans evolved in Asia.
2. What new tool type is associated with Homo erectus?
A. Oldowan core scrapers
B. Acheulian tools such as bifaces
C. Mousterian knives
D. Paleolithic spear points
3. What stone tool technology was first hafted to make thrusting spears?
A. Oldowan
B. Mousterian
C. Late Paleolithic
D. Acheulian
4. The morphology of the Paleoindian skull from Kennewick indicates that it
A. looks quite different from modern Native Americans' skulls.
B. is about 3,000 years old.
C. was recovered from an elaborate burial.
D. represents an early Eskimo population.
5. Archaic Homo sapiens
A. is dated to the late Pliocene.
B. is often found with Oldowan stone tools.
C. shows a mixture of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens traits.
D. occurs only in Europe and Asia.