When it was discovered, why did was the Piltdown Man specimen thought to support the Brain First hypothesis for human evolution?

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The following document contains 12 written answer questions; you will be answering 6 of them.
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There are three sections to this part of the exam:
In Section 1 you must answer 2 of 4 short answer questions, you may answer in point form (6 points
each)
In Section 2 you must answer 3 of 5 short answer questions, you may answer in point form (4 points
each)
In Section 3 you must answer 1 of 3 short answer questions, you may answer in point form (8 points
each)


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SECTION 1:
Answer 2 of the four questions below for a total of 12 points (6 points each). Please indicate which
question you are answering. The questions in this section may be answered in point form.

SA1.1. Male-male competition and female choice are both examples of what evolutionary
mechanism? Explain both of these terms, making clear how they differ. Provide one example of a
behaviour for each

SA1.2. You are doing fieldwork in Chad in deposits that date to 6 million years old. You discover a
partial skeleton that includes a complete skull, most of a pelvis, and the distal (knee) end of a femur.
What features would you look for on these fossils to determine if this specimen was bipedal? Detail
three features and provide a brief description of why each feature could indicate bipedalism.

SA1.3. You have been hired as an archaeologist to work on an excavation in Turkey. One of your tasks
is to study the faunal assemblage for evidence of domestication. On your very first day at the site, you
uncover the complete skull of a mammal. To determine whether this mammal was domesticated or
not, what three morphological features would you look for and why?

SA1.4. What does the “Clovis First” hypothesis state? What is one major problem with this
hypothesis? Describe the material cultural evidence from one archaeological site discussed in lecture
and explain why it provides evidence contrary to the “Clovis First” hypothesis.


SECTION 2:
You must answer 3 of the following five questions for a total of 12 points (4 points each). Please
indicate which question you are answering. The questions in this section may be answered in point
form.
SA2.1. Using your knowledge of the skeletal features of Homo sapiens and Neandertals, explain 2
morphological differences AND 2 morphological similarities they share.

SA2.2. You are a horse breeder, and you have bred together two black horses. Surprisingly, their
offspring all have brown coats! If coat colour acts as a Mendelian (single gene) trait with only 2
possible alleles, what was the genotype of the black-coated parents? What was the genotype of the
brown-coated offspring? If you wanted to be sure to get a brown horse, what coat-colour should the
parents have? Without doing genetic testing, could you ever be sure of getting a horse with a black
coat?

SA2.3. There are two early hypotheses for human evolution: Brain First and Bipedalism First. Explain
what they mean. When it was discovered, why did was the Piltdown Man specimen thought to
support the Brain First hypothesis for human evolution? Based on our knowledge of the fossil record
today, which hypothesis is best supported: Brain First or Bipedalism first?

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SA2.4. Is there any scientific support for the racial categorization of modern humans? Why or why
not? What are 3 factors that influence human variation?

SA2.5. You are a primatologist working in the tropical forest in Costa Rica. You encounter a member of
an entirely new species of mammal. How exciting! You observe that it is an arboreal, equatorial
mammal, and you have seen it eating some fruit. Using information just from the one individual
observed at one point in time, describe TWO sets of anatomical features you would observe to
determine if it is in fact a primate


SECTION 3:
You must answer 1 of the following three questions for a total of 8 points. The questions in this
section may be answered in point form. Keep in mind that this does not mean the answers will
necessarily be short.
SA3.1. Who is Selam? How do we know her age and sex? What about her is similar to modern
humans, and what is different?

SA3.2. Discuss two ways in which the use of “race” in modern medical practice is damaging to the
health of Black patients.

SA3.3. In our lecture on the development of agriculture we discussed the health consequences of the
initial move to agriculture, as well as the impact humans have had on the world’s ecosystem by
spreading domesticates far beyond their original source areas. How has colonialism magnified the
impacts of these effects in North America, and what can be gained by learning more about Indigenous
diets?


SECTION 4:
BONUS QUESTION
Is there something that you spent time studying that wasn’t asked on the test? What is it and how
does it work?

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