How Humans Evolved 7th Edition by Robert Boyd – Test Bank

Test Bank For How Humans Evolved 7th Edition by Robert Boyd

1. ISBN-10

   0393936775
2. ISBN-13

   978-0393936773

   1. The earliest chipped stone instruments in East Africa date to roughly ________ mya.
   a. 3.7 c. 4.2
   b. 2.5 d. 1.3

   ANS: B DIF: Straightforward REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Remembering

   2. The primary use of instruments
   a. was by australopithecine ancestors of people.
   b. in all probability precedes the divergence of people and apes.
   c. occurred after the evolution of bipedalism.
   d. concerned distinctly human skills.

   ANS: B DIF: Medium REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Remembering

   3. Oldowan instruments are fairly variable in measurement and form. The most effective clarification for this sample is considered
   a. the perform the instruments had been made for.
   b. the actual technique used to make them.
   c. how toolmakers thought their instruments ought to look.
   d. The actual uncooked materials used to make the instruments.

   ANS: D DIF: Medium REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Understanding

   4. Scientists have established that Oldowan flakes had been
   a. helpful for a variety of features, together with butchering animals.
   b. primarily a waste product of creating Oldowan instruments.
   c. primarily used for searching giant sport like elephants.
   d. unintended byproducts of utilizing spherical cobbles for numerous functions.

   ANS: A DIF: Medium
   REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers | Proof for Advanced Foraging by Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Remembering

   5. Oldowan flakes
   a. could have been made to make different instruments that had been then used to extract assets.
   b. had been primarily the waste product from making the “cores.”
   c. had been used to dig up tubers.
   d. had been used to crack open bones to extract marrow.

   ANS: A DIF: Straightforward REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Remembering

   6. Spheroids had been most certainly
   a. used to course of plant meals.
   b. hammer stones that had been worn from making instruments.
   c. searching instruments thrown at animals.
   d. made most frequently by right-handed toolmakers.

   ANS: B DIF: Medium REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Distinction the foraging strategies of contemporary foragers with the foraging strategies of different primates. MSC: Remembering

   7. By changing into proficient at making Oldowan stone instruments, scientists had been capable of reveal that
   a. the unique makers will need to have been trendy people.
   b. the earliest stone instruments had been spheroids.
   c. the unique makers had been in all probability right-handed more often than not.
   d. the unique makers had been in all probability left-handed more often than not.

   ANS: C DIF: Medium REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Analyzing

   8. Oldowan instruments present in East Africa and dated to 2.5 mya might have been made by
   a. Australopithecus afarensis. c. Homo sapiens.
   b. Proconsul africanus. d. Homo neanderthalensis.

   ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Describe the primary stone instruments made by hominins. MSC: Evaluating

   9. Which of the next is the most certainly description of the “first engineer” of stone instruments, primarily based on out there knowledge?
   a. A member of the genus Homo
   b. A member of the genus Australopithecus or an early member of the genus Homo
   c. Australopithecus africanus
   d. The earliest Homo sapiens

   ANS: B DIF: Exhausting REF: The Oldowan Toolmakers
   OBJ: Perceive how reliance on advanced foraging strategies has influenced human life historical past.
   MSC: Evaluating

   10. ________ meals come from issues that don’t transfer however are protected indirectly.
   a. Hunted c. Collected
   b. Extracted d. Provisioned