4.10 Review Questions
Review Questions
Below are a few questions to help you review the concepts in this chapter.
- What is the difference between taxonomy and phylogenetics?
- Starting with Kingdom, what is the taxonomy for humans?
- How and why do we build phylogenetic trees?
- What are the differences between Strepsirrhines and Haplorrhines? Which are we?
- Within the family Hominoidae, with which other apes are we grouped?
- What are the different great ape social systems? Which is most common among humans?
- What are key epochs in the evolutionary trajectory of H. sapiens?
- What tool technologies are associated with which species of Homo?
- What is the encephalization quotient (EQ)? Why might it be important?
- What alternatives are proposed to EQ?
- What does the migration of H. sapiens out of Africa tell us about the importance of our cognitive change?
