4110 Study Sheet

Test 3
Sexual dimorphism in A. afarensis
KBS tuff
First family
A. afarensis morphology and dates
KNM ER 1470
Denen Dora
Laetoli
Ardipithecus
Aiello & Wheeler’s Expensive Tissue Hypothesis
Dubois
Incisor size
Shearing crests/occlusal relief
Meat eating in early Homo
Carnivore and stream involvement in assemblage formation
Carbon isotopes and diet
Sr/Ca ratios and diet
Zhoukoudian
Rodman & McHenry and bipedalism
Where early Homo is found
Homo erectus traits
Homo at Hadar
Kenyanthropus platyops
Bipedalism and thermoregulation (Wheeler)
A. anamensis
A. bahrelghazali
Praeanthropus
Oldest potential hominins
Sahelanthropus
Dental microwear
Bunn & Kroll, Blumenschine, and meat acquisition at Olduvai
Tubers
Development in H. erectus/ergaster
Homo floresiensis
Early hominin environments
Australopithecus garhi
Microscopic examination of bones and access to carcasses
Turkana Boy
Growth increments in teeth
Dates for H. erectus/ergaster in and out of Africa

Test 2

Dental Formulae
Primate Traits
Intermembral Indices
Encephalization quotients
Ramapithecus
Proconsul
Paranthropus robustus
CK Brain
Australopithecus africanus
STS 14
Sterkfontein
Taung Child
Alcelaphini and antilopini
TM 1513
Leakey
Susman
Drimolen
Makapansgat
Kromdraai
Taung Environments
Piltdown
Osteodontokeratic
Broom
Paranthropus boisei
Semicircular canals
Little Foot
Sites with co-existing hominin species
Lunate sulcus of A. africanus
Bone tools
Kanzi
Leopards as accumulating agents
Oldowan
Features indicating bipedalism in australopiths
Features indicating time spent in trees in australopiths
Megadontia quotients
Olduvai Gorge
East African vs South African robusts
Body size and limb proportions of australopiths and early Homo
Earliest evidence for Homo
Earliest stone tools
Differences in apes and monkeys
Gigantopithecus
Specimen completeness and reconstruction as discussed by Leakey in video.

Test 1

Ok, this is a bit rough, but I thought it was most important to get it up ASAP, so here it is! Some of these terms/phrases encompass several questions (e.g., Epochs of the Cenozoic), so the total number of questions will be about 50. Bear in mind that I do not expect you to know everything that there is to know about these subjects, but only the things that were discussed in class.

Catastrophism

uniformitarianism

James Hutton

Epochs of the Cenozoic

Biological Species Concept

Phylogenetic Species Concept

Nominalistic Species Concept

American belief in evolution and the antiquity of the earth

Allopatric speciation

Taxonomy of humans and close relations

Mesozoic

Tyson

Linnaeus

Scala Naturae

Radiocarbon dating

Ar/Ar dating

Luminescence dating

ESR

Relative dating techniques

Bovids

Paleomagnetism

Oxygen isotope analysis

Lobe-finned fish

Acanthostega

Elephant molars

Ussher

Paleoanthropology

Ice age temps and seas levels

Taxonomic uniformitarianism

Milankovic Cycles

Paraphyletic

Monophyletic

Cladistics

Analogous structures

Homologous structures

“Big” extinction events

pedogenic carbonates

Clade

Grade
Science and Religion at “War”