Test #1 Anthropology 153

Test #1

Anthropology 153

Due in three weeks :

May be typed or handwritten (legibly) . Please hand in a hard copy; and keep a copy for yourself. Write long answers , please. Try to make connections between ideas in the different questions.

1) What are the 4 parts of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis theory as explained by Prof. Brown in lectures ? Elaborate

2) What were Darwin’s two hypotheses (different than those in question 1) on human evolutionary origins that were proven true with fossil evidence by Raymond Dart and others ? Why is one of them significant for the last 500 years of human history ?

3) What was the Piltdown hoax ? Why did the hoaxer fake a fossil in Europe ?

4) What are primates ? Why do we study primates in this anthropology class ?

5) What are hominins ?

6) What are the hominin anatomical characteristics that make hominin fossils the so-called Darwinian Missing Link between human anatomy and chimp anatomy ? ( Recall Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that chimpanzees are the living species with the closest common ancestor with humans on the Tree of Life or Phylogenetic Tree) 7) Answer questions 1, 2, 5 and 6, ON THE FIRST PAGE OF CHAPTER 13 of _Physical Anthropology_ text. Professor Charles Brown