Author Question: Raymond Dart described Australopithecus africanus as A) a quadrupedal ape that closely related to ... (Read 117 times)

Jkov05 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Raymond Dart described Australopithecus africanus as

A) a quadrupedal ape that closely related to chimpanzees, but that showed enormous brain expansion
B) an extinct race of apes intermediate between living apes and humans
C) fossil proof that large brains preceeded bipedalism
D) an ancient and small-brained creature, but human nonetheless
E) fossil proof that human bipedalism was a recent evolutionary development

Question 2

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

A) is inherited only from one's mother
B) studies, although originally flawed, still support an African origin for modern humans
C) shows less genetic diversity in modern human populations than had previously been assumed
D) studies on modern humans' origins are in agreement with the results of research on microsatellite allele diversity
E) all of the above