The two most important features in distinguishing hominins from apes are _______ walking and _______ structure.

The “Lucy” hominin was like modern human beings in that she was _______. but unlike them with respect to _______ size.

Lucy shows us that hominin features evolved in a _______ pattern, which is to say that different features evolved at different points in time and in different species.

The taxonomic group of human-like primates, the hominins, is thought to have originated between _______ years ago with a common primate ancestor who gave rise to both the hominin and _______ evolutionary lines.

Compared to other hominins, are we Homo sapiens regarded as an early evolving or late-evolving species?

All early and mid-period hominin evolution is believed to have taken place on the _______ continent.

A common misconception in society is that scientists are hunting for a “missing link” that falls in an evolutionary line between human beings and apes. Why does our current knowledge of human evolution make the concept of a missing link meaningless?

The first fossils that were recognized as belonging to an extinct hominin species (select all that apply):

a. were found in the nineteenth century in Germany.

b. belonged to the species Australopithecus africanus.

c. were found in the twenty-first century in Indonesia.

d. belonged to the species Homo neanderthalensis.

e. belonged to the species Homo erectus.

The taxonomic group Hominini is defined as the group of:

a. modern humans and chimpanzees.

b. modern humans and Homo neanderthalensis.

c. modern humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas.

d. human-like primates.

e. primates lacking a tree-dwelling existence.