Early Man Vocab Quiz 1

Divergence

• the act of moving away in different direction from a common point; separation

• a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

• Human-like

• inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

Anthropologist

• a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

• inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

• group of mammals including humans, monkeys, and apes that share characteristics such as opposable thumbs, binocular vision, and flexible shoulders

• scientist who studies the physical characteristics and cultures of humans and their ancestors

Bipedal

• From the ground floor

• Southern Ape from Afar

• walking upright, having two legs

• human-like

Ardi

• person who moves from place to place in search of food

• the world's oldest, most complete skeleton at 4.4 million years old

• was for some time the world's oldest, most complete fossil skeleton at 3.4 million years old

• inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

Australopithicus Afarensis

• Walking upright, having two legs

• Human-like

• From the ground floor

• Southern Ape from Afar

Primate

• "wise human being" a hominid species that emerged around 250,000 years ago and developed into two subgroups, Neanderthals and homo sapiens sapiens

• group of mammals including humans, monkeys, and apes that share characteristics such as opposable thumbs, binocular vision, and flexible shoulders

• scientist who studies the physical characteristics and cultures of humans and their ancestors

• "New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to farming and domesticated animals

Evolution

• archaeological exploration or digging

• "Able human being" a Hominid species that learned to use crude tools

• change in a kind of organism over time

• inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

Adaptation

• archaeological exploration or digging

• "Able human being" a Hominid species that learned to use crude tools

• change in a kind of organism over time

• inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

Family of anthropologists who worked at dig sites in east Africa

• Leakey

• Darwin

• Lovejoy

• White

Nomad

• inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

• walking upright; having two legs

• "Able human being" a Hominid species that learned to use crude tools

• person who moves from place to place in search of food