UCSP 21-22

Topic: Human Bio-cultural and Social Evolution

Worksheet 7
Name: Flores, Jabriel Zeth Section: 11B

Instruction: Read Article 6-8 of the UCSP reader and answer the questions below. Put your answer on the space provided.

Questions Answers:
1. Human species that originated in Indonesia and is known for its very Homo
Floresiensis
small skull.
2. According to scientists, split into separate groups, one Homo Erectus
ancestral to the Neandertals, the other ancestral to anatomically
modern
humans (AMHs).
3. This refers to the Neanderthal technology of making tools that started on Mousterian
Middle Paleolithic.
4. Aside from having large trunks, another adaptation brought by the Face
extreme cold was the Neandertal’s .
5. Neandertals were first discovered in Western Europe and was named Valley
after Neander Valley. What does tal from neandertal stands for?
6. This 1.2-million-year-old jawbone fragment was the oldest hominid fossil Homo
Antecessor
ever found in western Europe.
7. This geological epoch has been considered the epoch of early human Pleistocene
life.
8. Which among the Homo-erectus, anatomically modern humans, and Neandertals
Neandertals has the biggest brain size?
9. A cranial fragment of Homo erectus was found in this European country. Italy
10. Give 2 countries where remains of Homo erectus were found. Idonesia,
Algeria,
Morocco
11. permitted the Homo erectus to occupy cave in China, provided Fire
protection from bears and tigers and widened the range of climates
open to human colonization.
12. This refers to the main Lower Paleolithic tool making tradition used by H. Acheulian
erectus
13. The skull of this human species is characterized for its thick bony wall, Homo Erectus
which somewhat resembles a cyclist’s helmet.
14. This human species pushed the hominin range beyond Africa to Asia Homo Erectus
and Europe.
15. Recent findings from the hominin fossil finds from Ileret, Kenya shows Homo habilis
that and Homo erectus overlapped in time rather being
ancestor and descendant.
UCSP 21-22
Topic: Human Bio-cultural and Social Evolution
Worksheet 7
16. Garhi from Australopithecus garhi means in Afar language of surprise
Ethiopia.
17. These pebble tools represent the world’s oldest formally recognized Oldowan
stone tools.
18. Two kinds of stone tools: & Flakes, Cores
19. A term coined by L. S. B. and Mary Leakey to describe the earliest Home Habilis
members of the genus Homo.
20. Two groups of South African australopithecines: & Gracile (A.
Africanus) and
Robust (A.
Robustus)
21. Which among A. africanus, A. robustus & A. boisei has the biggest brain A. Robustus
size?
22. This refers to the kind of vegetation which led the A. afarensis to have (Savanna)
Grassland and
powerful back teeth to accommodate heavy chewing stresses.
semidesert
23. is a skeleton of a tiny hominin female, who lived around 3 m.y.a. Lucy
which is based on Hadar samples.
24. Give at least one site where the hominin species known as A. afarensis Laetoli in
northern
were found.
Tanzania
25. This refers to the bipedal hominin from northern Kenya, whose fossil A. Anamensis
remains were reported first by Maeve Leakey and Alan Walker in 1995
26. The discovery of in Chad is the first proof of a more widespread Sahelanthropu
s
distribution of early hominins.
27. permitted the use of tools and weapons against predators Upright
bipedalism
and competitors. It has also allowed early hominins to carry things
including scavenged parts of carnivore kills.
28. Larger demand larger birth canals. Skulls
29. This refers to the process by which the life forms most fit to survive and Natural
Selection
reproduce in a given environment do so in greater numbers than others
in the same population.
30. provided a theoretical framework for understanding evolution. Charles
Darwin