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Cheryl Graves
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When Wilma met Fred

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310 million-year-old tree fossils to reveal new ancient animals
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Why were they searching for hominin fossils in Tanzania?
Because course costs were less expensive
Because it's a dry climate so fossils stay preserved
Because hominins didn't live outside Africa until 10,000 years ago
Because East Africa is probably the origin of ancient humans
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Dr. Heinen was constantly referring to the Pleistocene Epoch in class. What is the Pleistocene?
the most ancient period in geology
the age of dinosaurs
a time when most species now living became extinct
the geological age just before the present age
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Paleontologists excavating an area that was once a shallow lake find fossils of two extinct species that were ancestors to modern humans. The more modern species was found in a shallow pit and the older species was found in a deeper pit. Why would scientists look for fossils in areas that were once in shallow water?
Fossils form better in shallow water because there is more sunlight.
Nothing in an aquatic environment would eat dead animals.
Animal remains are often trapped and buried in sediments in shallow bodies of water.
Animals would have been trapped and buried near the water during catastrophic floods.
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What species in the genus Homo is most likely to be found by Dr. Heinen's class?
Homo erectus
Homo habilus
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
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What feature of the remains identifies this early hominid as H. Erectus and excludes all the other species?
the length of the femur
the size of the ribcage
the volume of the cranial vault
the strong teeth
all of the above
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Previous slide:
positive correlation
negative correlation
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Previous slide... is there evidence for the trend levelling off since 400,000 years ago?
yes
no
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