Human Evolution Questions

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Q1. Why is there often a difference of opinion regarding the age of fossils?

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Q2. Suggest a reason for the observation that apes other than humans generally have large jaws and well-developed jaw muscles.

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Q3. Give one significant feature of the footprints that would have led anthropologists to the conclusion of bipedalism

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Q4. Suggest two explanations for the differences in skulls from Australia

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Q5. Name two distinguishing features of humans from chimpanzees and gorillas and their selective advantages

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Q6. Outline one way that advances in medicine and/ or in technology have or can contribute to human evolution

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Q7. Give two reasons why it would be difficult to assign a newly discovered fossil skull to a certain species

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Q8. Describe a skeletal feature of a fossil hominin, which could be used to compare with other fossil hominins

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Q9. What is mean by cultural evolution?

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Q10. Explain the advantage of the precision grip and a protruding nose

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Q11. Briefly outline the out-of-Africa model of human evolution

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Q12. Briefly outline the multi-regional hypothesis of human evolution

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Q13. Outline three reasons why fossils are often difficult to interpret.

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Q14. Give two pieces of evidence that support the Out of Africa hypothesis rather than the Multiregional hypothesis

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