1. Humans are:

1. hominins, hominoids, anthropoids, primates, and mammals
2. hominins, hominoids, anthropoids, primates, but not mammals
3. hominins, hominoids, anthropoids, but not primates or mammals
4. hominins, hominoids, but not anthropoids, primates, or mammals

2. Recognizable modern humans, homo sapiens, evolved how long ago?

1. around 200,000 years ago
2. around 50,000 years ago
3. around 1 million years ago
4. around 540 million years ago

3. Which hominin used first Oldowan tools, then Acheulean tools?

1. Australopithecus
2. Homo habilis
3. Homo ergaster
4. Neanderthals

4. Which hominin had bigger brains than humans today?

1. Homo habilis
2. Homo ergaster
3. Homo neaderthalensis
4. Homo heidelburgensis

5. The proposal that humans started to live longer not because the young took care of older members of the community, but because these older people took care of the young, enabling parents to attend to other necessary tasks, is known as:

1. the grandmother hypothesis
2. the juvenile stage
3. the grandchild hypothesis
4. hominin longevity

6. Stone tools that were carefully made, often with a very sharp edge, are called:

1. Oldowan tools
2. Acheulean tools
3. Mousterian tools
4. dangerous

7. There is evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the history Homo sapiens: a time when only a small number of individuals survived. How many individuals are estimated to have survived?

1. 1,000,000
2. 100,000
3. 10,000
4. 1,000

8. Study of the number of phonemes in languages around the world suggests that: 

1. language was invented independently several times, in a variety of locations
2. language was invented once, in Hawaii
3. language was invented independently several times, in southern Africa
4. language was invented once, in southern Africa

9. In which hominin species did childhood emerge as a new developmental stage, between infancy and the juvenile stage?

1. Australopithecus
2. Homo habilis
3. Homo erectus
4. Homo sapiens

10. What is the new developmental stage that emerged for the first time with the evolution of Homo sapiens?

1. infancy
2. childhood
3. juvenile (middle childhood)
4. adolescence

11. The !Kung are an example of a society that is organized at the level of:

1. the family group
2. the clan, or local group
3. the chiefdom
4. the city

12. The Gusii are an example of a society that is organized at the level of:

1. the family group
2. the clan, or local group
3. the chiefdom
4. the city

13. The Nso are an example of a society that is organized at the level of:

1. the family group
2. the clan, or local group
3. the chiefdom
4. the city

14. Most of the children who have been studied by developmental researchers are WEIRD. In the acronym ‘WEIRD’ the letter E stands for:

1. eccentric
2. expensive
3. educated
4. ecological