Author Question: Which of the following statements about australopiths is true? A. They had a greater cranial ... (Read 82 times)

viki · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Which of the following statements about australopiths is true?

A. They had a greater cranial capacity than Homo erectus.
B. They lived in the tropical forest.
C. They have been found predominantly in West Africa.
D. They were fully bipedal.
E. They were primarily carnivores.

Question 2

Fossils of Au. afarensis are particularly significant because

A. they show that humans evolved in Asia rather than Africa.
B. they are the oldest hominin fossils yet found in the New World.
C. Au. afarensis remains are the oldest to be found in association with evidence of both stone tools and fire use.
D. they comprise the first fossil evidence to confirm that bipedalism preceded the evolution of a humanlike brain.
E. they show that the gracile australopithecines were not hominins after all.