S292 Origins Quiz

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1. How old is the recent fossil discovery known as Millennium Man thought to be ?

1 Million Years
2 Million Years
6 Million Years
8 Million Years

2. Which famous Australopithecine specimen is named after a famous Beatles song ?

Lucy
Jude
Penny
Eleanor

3. Which of the species below was the only one to co-exist with our own species ?

Homo erectus
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo rudolfensis

4. Who discovered the specimen known as the Taung Child, an Australopithecus africanus in 1924?

Donald Johanson
Raymond Dart
Mary Leakey
Roger Lewin

5. What are the two different types of Australopithecines known as ?

Large Teeth and Small Teeth
Graceful and Rough
Robust and Bipeds
Robust and Gracile

6. Which of the species below is the 'out of Africa' species ?

Homo rudolfensis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo erectus
Homo neanderthalensis

7. The specimen known as 'Zinj' belongs to which of the species listed below ?

Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus boisei
Australopithecus garhi

8. The term Cro-Magnon is used to refer to.....

The last Neanderthals
Species that used tools
Modern Humans
Species discovered in Africa

9. Fossil remains assigned to the species Australopithecus africanus were first discovered in....

Neander Valley, Germany
Swartkrans, South Africa
Peking, China
Taung, South Africa

10. Which species name means 'handy man' ?

Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis
Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis

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