BBC Walking With Cavemen

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1. To what group of primates do humans belong to? ___________________

2. How long have humans and their ancestors been present on Earth? ____________________

3. When did Homo sapiens first evolve? _______________________

4. When did the early hominid called “Lucy” live? ___________________

5. What was different about A. afarensis from other earlier primates? _________________________

6. What does Australopithecus mean? ______________________________

7. What caused the change from jungle to grasslands to occur in Africa? ______________________________

8. What helped to drive the evolution of larger brain size in Australopithecines? _____________________________________________

9. What changes in Lucy allowed her to walk more like a human than an ape? _________________________________________________________

10. Fossils tell us about physical changes – how can we determine how Lucy and other Australopithecines behaved? ______________________________

11. What are the advantages of bipedalism (walking upright)? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12. When did P. boisei live? ____________________

13. What do teeth fossils tell us about the diet of P. boisei? _____________________________________________________________

14. Why were P. boisei considered specialists? _____________________________________________________________

15. What was the probable cause of the extinction of the P. boisei?

16. What was the first hominid to carry the genus name Homo? ________________________

17. How much bigger was Homo habilis brains than P. boisei? ___________________ What does Homo habilis mean? _________________________________

18. What did H. habilis make that earlier hominids did not? _____________

19. What does Homo ergaster mean? When did they first evolve? ____________________________________________________________

20. What changes can be seen in the bones of this hominid? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

21. What adaptations to the hot environment have appeared in Homo ergaster? _____________________________________________________

22. What new tool has H. ergaster created that helped them modify their environment? _____________________________

23. What does Homo erectus mean? When did they first evolve? ____________________________________________________________

24. What may have allowed H. erectus to be able to move around and travel so far? _______________________________________________________

25. What did H. erectus learn to make tools from? _____________________

26. When did Homo erectus go extinct? _________________________

27. Did modern humans evolve from H. erectus or H. ergaster? __________________________

28. Why did Homo ergaster go extinct? (Alec Baldwin talks about this…) _____________________________________________________________

29. Why was the use of fire by hominids so important to human brain evolution? ___________________________________________________

30. What hominid had a brain almost as big as ours? _______________________________________

31. What was a difference in behavior between H. heidelbergensis and modern humans? _______________________________________________

32. What climate changes occurred in Africa and Europe that affected the evolution of Homo heidelbergensis? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

33. What hominid evolved from H. heidelbergensis in Europe? _______________________________________

34. What adaptations to the cold climate do H. neanderthalensis have? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

35. When did H. neanderthalensis go extinct? ______________________

36. What does Homo sapiens mean? ________________________________

37. When did the first H. sapiens evolve? ____________________________

38. What adaptations to heat did H. sapiens have? _____________________________________________________________

39. When did Homo sapiens move out of Africa and begin to spread across Asia and Europe? ___________________________

40. What does the narrator say is the most important aspect to human brain evolution (and allowed modern humans to evolve and survive)? _________________________________