1. This is Jeopardy Human Evolution To make this game…
First think of five review categories and five questions for each category.
Add the categories to the top of the table in slide 2.
Place your questions according to the categories into the slides. For example…C1-200 is the question for Category 1 worth 200 points. C5-400 is the question for Category 5 worth 400 points.
Place a final jeopardy question in the Final Jeopardy box.
Test your slide show.
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2. Category No. 1 Category No. 2 Category No. 3 Category No. 4 No. 5 100
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To play the game.
Divide you class into teams. If you have bells or some other way of emulating ringing in your answers, knock yourself out!
The contestant chooses a category and a point value. Click on their choice and you will advance to the associated slide. Click on the slide to reveal the answer. Once the contestant has stated the question click on the slide again to reveal the question. Click BACK to return to the Categories Slide.
The first contestant from team 1 goes first then I alternate to the next team.
Final Jeopardy

3. C1-100-The answer is…
What two characteristics are common to all primates?
Binocular vision and movable fingers and toes
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4. C1-200-The answer is… Why was the discovery of Lucy so important?
Showed that bipedalism came before a large brain
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5. C1-300-The answer is… Name three prosimian primates
Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers
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6. C1-400-The answer is…
What one thing do scientists look at on a fossil to determine whether it is a hominid?
If the bones indicate bipedalism
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7. C1-500-The answer is…
Which hominid species had the most sophisticated tools?
Homo sapiens
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8. C2-100-The answer is…
The earliest evidence of modern Homo sapiens came from sites in
Africa
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9. C2-200-The answer is…
Were all australopithecines bipedal?
yes
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10. C2-300-The answer is…
Do modern humans belong to the same genus as the australopithecines?
No – modern humans belong to the genus homo
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11. C2-400-The answer is… Where did Neanderthals live?
Europe – mainly in the area of France
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12. C2-500-The answer is…
Why were the finger drawings in the caves in Australia significant?
They demonstrated the ability to think abstractly
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13. C3-100-The answer is…
The oldest hominid fossils dated to 4.5 million years ago are known as?
Ardipithecus Ramidus
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14. C3-200-The answer is… What was Homo habilis known for? Making tools
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15. C3-300-The answer is… What does Prehensile mean? The ability to grasp
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16. C3-400-The answer is… What was the purpose of the sagittal crest?
To attach big jaw muscles
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17. C3-500-The answer is…
What information can you get from fossilized skull fragments?
Size of brain, whether they had a brow ridge or sagittal crest.
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18. C4-100-The answer is…
What information can you get from fossilized teeth?
Diet, wear patterns can tell you about other activity (animal skins), what the environment was like from their diet
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19. C4-200-The answer is…
What are three characteristics unique to anthropoid primates?
Well developed collar bones
Rotating shoulder joints
Opposable thumb
Similar dental formula
Large brain to body size
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20. C4-300-The answer is…
Name anatomical features that support bipedalism.
Cup shaped pelvis
S-shaped spine
Foramen magnum at bottom of skull
Short aligned toes
Stiff knee below body
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21. C4-400-The answer is… What are the advantages of being a biped?
Use of hands for carrying children and food, for protection, for feeding, for play or gesture
Less heat loss
Able to travel farther – more efficient locomotion
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22. C4-500-The answer is… How did bipedalism increase fitness?
Able to eat more efficiently with hands
Better able to take care of/protect young
Able to see farther for food or predators
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23. C5-100-The answer is… Summarize the multiregional hypothesis.
Modern humans evolved in parallel worldwide from Homo erectus – must have gene flow between populations
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24. C5-200-The answer is… Explain the African origin hypothesis
Modern humans originated in Africa 100,000 – 200,000 years ago and then migrated into the rest of the world.
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25. C5-300-The answer is…
When it comes to hominids, what is the relationship between body size and brain size?
Direct proportion – bigger body = bigger brain
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26. C5-400-The answer is…
Compare the skull of a human with that of a gorilla.
Gorilla: brow ridge, prognathic face, foramen magnum at back of skull, sagittal crest, u-shaped jaw
Human: small face, no brow ridge, flat face under skull, V-shaped jaw, foramen magnum at bottom, no sagittal crest
*Both have similar dental formula
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27. C6-500-The answer is…
How were Neanderthals different from Cro-Magnon’s?
Neanderthals had heavy bones, thick brow ridges, large protruding teeth, shorter but very heavily built
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28. Final Jeopardy Back End Game
What was the final theory in the Neanderthal movie? What evidence do scientists have to support it? What evidence disputes it?
1. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon interbred
Skeleton of 4 yr. old boy found that dates 3000 years after Neanderthal. Skull similar to Cro-Magnon but skeleton similar to Neanderthal
Dispute: there is no DNA evidence of Neanderthal genes in our sequences.
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End Game