A) was limited to Europe and Africa prior to the anatomically modern humans' stage of human evolution.
B) moved away from the coasts because of natural disasters like flood and drought.
C) reached its territorial maximum by 50,000 B.P.
D) expanded to its maximum when Neandertal foragers entered the New World.
E) expanded significantly, in large part due to Homo's increasing reliance on cultural means of adaptation.
G) A) and C)
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A) Fossil evidence from Lake Mungo in New South Wales suggests that Australia was settled as early as 100,000 years ago by Melanesian settlers who crossed the exposed land bridges connecting the Pacific islands.
B) An interglacial period around 70,000 B.P. allowed the seafaring people of Tasmania to navigate to the Australian mainland.
C) A glacial period around 50,000 B.P. exposed a land bridge connecting Asia and Australia, making it possible for humans to cross over on foot.
D) Humans crossed the narrow straits separating Asia and the then continent of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania) , perhaps in primitive watercraft, around 50,000 B.P.
E) Fossil evidence from Lake Mungo in New South Wales suggests that Australia was settled around 50,000 B.P. by humans from Asia following big game.
G) A) and C)
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A) the melting of the ice sheets with the end of the Würm glacial period gradually pushed big game farther north, pressuring hominins to use a greater variety of foods.
B) hominins turned to a more specialized diet based on big-game meat after the glacial retreat.
C) hominins began a sedentary life after the end of the Würm glacial period, forming the first villages in human history.
D) the melting of the ice sheets with the end of the Würm glacial period caused animal diversity to drop, challenging hominins to shift their diets from meat to coarse grasses.
E) hominins were forced to migrate northward during the Würm glacial interval.
G) B) and C)
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A) During major glacials, with so much water frozen in ice, land bridges formed, aiding human colonization of new areas, such as Australia by 46,000 B.P. and the Americas perhaps by 18,000 B.P.
B) During interglacial periods the seas rose, encouraging human exploration of the oceans, such as the case of the Pacific islands from Asia by 46,000 B.P.
C) Warmer periods forced people to adapt their diets to a smaller range of staples, forcing them to move to ensure that these staples remained part of their diet, such as the case of the colonization of Sahul by 50,000 years ago.
D) During major glacials, with so much of the earth's soils too frozen for agriculture, humans had to turn to hunting and foraging, which in turn forced them to be on the move once they depleted an area of its food resources.
E) During interglacial periods the sea levels dropped, encouraging human exploration along the coasts, leading to unexpected discoveries such as the case of the Pacific islands from Asia by 46,000 B.P.
G) C) and D)
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A) because they were fleeing from warlike Cro-Magnon groups.
B) in order to take advantage of large flint deposits in South America.
C) following herds of big-game animals (woolly mammoths, especially) .
D) because they were gradually forced into new territories by the expansion of more advanced agricultural groups in Asia.
E) in their search for colder climates, because these were Neandertals adapted to cold weather.
G) All of the above
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A) 27 differences between the two, many more than would be expected in closely related humans, suggesting that there may have been little interbreeding between Neandertals and the direct ancestors to modern humans.
B) only 5 to 8 differences between the two, as is typical of closely related humans, placing Neandertals within modern humans' direct line of descent.
C) many more mutations in the Neandertal DNA, suggesting that the species had been around 100,000 years longer than previously estimated.
D) no differences, since Neandertals and modern humans are the same species.
E) that the two samples were not comparable, since the Neandertal DNA was molecularly different from the DNA of the reference sample.
G) A) and B)
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A) a greater reliance on cultural means of adaptation
B) an increase in the quantity and quality of tools
C) an increase in cranial capacity
D) a greater reliance on biological means of adaptation
E) population growth
G) B) and D)
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A) growth in Homo's total population and geographic range.
B) an increase in the number of distinct tool types, reflecting functional specialization.
C) marked social and economic stratification among members of a society.
D) increasing local cultural diversity as people specialized in particular economic activities.
E) increasing standardization in tool manufacture.
G) C) and E)
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A) when early anatomically modern humans became fully human in behavior (relying on symbolic thought and elaborating cultural creativity) as well as in anatomy
B) when hominids became hominins
C) the beginning of a truly civilized and sedentary life, achieved 10,000 years ago
D) when early anatomically modern humans began to manipulate fire
E) the beginning of life beyond the forest and in the open grasslands
G) B) and C)
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A) Asia origin of broad-spectrum revolution.
B) idea that Neandertals originated in Africa and never left the continent.
C) African origin of anatomically modern humans (AMHs) .
D) European origin of AMHs.
E) crucial role that the manipulation of fire played in the advent of behavioral modernity.
G) A) and D)
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A) everyone alive today has mtDNA that descends from a woman (dubbed Eve) who lived in sub-Saharan Africa around 200,000 years ago and that her descendants left Africa no more than 135,000 years ago.
B) everyone alive today has mtDNA that descends from a woman (dubbed Eve) who lived in Asia around 50,000 years ago and that her descendants left Asia 100,000 years ago.
C) establishing a "genetic clock" to model human evolution is reliable only when focusing on 50,000 years into the past.
D) everyone alive counts the Neandertal of western Europe as their ancestor.
E) Neandertals coexisted with modern humans in the Middle East for at least 2,000 years.
G) A) and C)
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A) robust australopithecines
B) Neanderthals
C) anatomically modern humans
D) archaic Homo sapiens
E) Homo erectus
G) A) and C)
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A) The earliest-known settlement in Polynesia occurred sometime between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago.
B) Navigation skills played an important role in the peopling of the Pacific.
C) Humans may have reached as far as the Galapagos more than 30,000 years ago.
D) Australia appears to have served as an initial point of expansion, via outrigger canoe, to Samoa and eventually Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island.
E) Once humans reached the Pacific, they did not settle there but moved on to the western coast of South America.
G) B) and E)
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