Review Guidelines for Quiz 2
Your second quiz will be 9 Nov in tutorial. (5%, remember only the best 4 of 6 quizzes count... but you should try to do your best on each quiz)
Based on:
Fagan Chapter 8.
Course Kit readings from Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 1: Biology and Evolution, Living Primates, An Overview of Primates, Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy, The Culture of Chimpanzees, Macroevolution and the Early Primates.
Format: very short answer, fill in the blank, label the diagram. 20 minutes long. Some of the following will be on the quiz. If you study this, you will be very well prepared. At least 80% of the quiz will be taken from the material below.
N.B. The information that is in the textbooks, but not on this quiz review list, is also very important to your understanding of the subjects of archaeology and palaeoanthropology. You should, therefore, read it all. If you only study the bits mentioned below, you might do fine on the quizzes, but you will probably not do very well on your assignments and the take-home exam.
From the Course Kit
From the chapter "Biology and Evolution", p 36: Be able to fill in our classification as Homo sapiens: i.e. the terms Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Primates, Anthropoidea, Hominoid, Hominid, Hominin, and Homo sapiens.
From the chapter "Biology and Evolution", know the definitions for: allele, genome, genes, natural selection, population, mutation, gene flow, genetic drift
From the chapter "Biology and Evolution" pp 47-51, know the four evolutionary forces described.
From the chapter "Chapter 6:An Overview of the Primates", know the characteristics of primates (pp 112-116)
From the chapter "Chapter 6: An Overview of the Primates", be able to fill in the following from Figure 6-8: Primates, Anthropoidea, Catarrhini, Hominoidea, Hominidae, Pongidae, Pongo, Gorilla, Pan, Homo.
From the chapter "Chapter 6: An Overview of the Primates", know the traits of anthropoids (p 127).
From the chapter "Chapter 6: An Overview of the Primates", know the traits of hominoids (p 132).
From the chapter "Chapter 6: An Overview of the Primates", know the "three basic reasons for the worldwide depletion of nonhuman primates." (p138)
From the chapter "Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy", be able to identify the following bones/features on a human skeleton: frontal, parietal, mandible, maxilla, occipital, clavicle, ribs, humerus, femur, foramen magnum, incisors, canine, premolars, molars
From Fagan ch. 8
Know these definitions (see the Glossaries in the back of the book): Pleistocene, Quaternary, adaptive radiation, arboreal
Know the four criteria generally used to assign a fossil to the genus Homo (p 218).
Know the basic details for the initial finds of Sahelanthropus (where found, how old is the fossil), for Australopithecus africanus (where, when found, by whom), Australopithecus afarensis (who found initial specimens, how old are the fossils, in millions of years)
On Fagan 8.2, be able to fill in: Hadar, Laetoli, Olduvai, Taung, Koto Toro
On Fagan fig 8.10, be able to fill in: A. afarensis, gracile australopithecines, robust australopithecines, Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and H. sapiens.