Study Guide for Test 2 in ANTH 101 Fall 2013 Study the vocabulary list Take the Practice Quizzes and also do the PowerPoint reviews attempting to answer each question before you look at the answer Be able to explain the reasoning behind 1 The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis including who it applies to and the fossil evidence 2 Natural Selection and differentiate it from evolution 3 Visual Predation Theory and who it applies to 4 Radiator theory including who it applies to and the fossil evidence Be able to list the following 1 The names in order from oldest to most recent of the geological epochs in the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era 2 Now add to that list in order the geological epochs in the Quaternary Period 3 The genera of all the definite hominids in order of their appearance HINT what is a genus 4 What stone tools are famously found with which hominids 5 Two hominid species that co existed at the same time 6 Trends that occurred in hominid skeletons through time 7 Changes in the body that accompany bipedalism 8 The order in which hominoids split away from the hominoid lineage Be able to 1 Write a scientific name correctly 2 Explain how evolution occurs 3 Name what geological epoch you are living in Be able to differentiate between 1 Evolution and natural selection 2 Hominid radiation and adaptive radiation 3 Hominid and hominoid 4 Pleistocene and Paleolithic 5 Paranthropus and Australopithecus 6 Sagittal crest and sagittal keel 7 Cranial and postcranial 8 Australopithecus and Homo habilis 9 Homo habilis and Homo erectus 10 Evidence for hunting versus for scavenging meat 11 An anthropoid and a prosimian 12 Acheulian versus Olduwan stone tools 13 Taphonomy versus taxonomy 1 Who or when are the following firsts 1 definite primates what geological epoch by when 2 first hominoids epoch 3 first hominids epoch when 4 first to definitely spread out of Africa who 5 first primitive primate like mammal who when 6 first stone tools who is definite 7 first clothing fire and shelters who 8 first language who 9 first to walk upright who 10 first essentially modern post cranial skeleton who 11 first barrel shaped rib cage like ours who 12 first with an average cranial capacity to fall with the range of modern cranial capacities 2
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