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question 9

Multiple Choice

Use the following information when answering the corresponding questions) .
Brown et al. and Morwood et al. reported, in 2004, that they had found skeletal remains of a previously unknown type of hom now dubbed Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. These hominins were small approximately 1 m tall) , with small braincases approximately 380 cm³) , as compared with other hominins. The remains of H. floresiensis were found alongside handmade stone tools and the remains of dwarf elephants that also inhabited the island, suggesting that H. floresiensis was able both to make tools and to coordinate the hunting of animals much larger than itself. H. floresiensis is estimated to have lived at the site where the remains were found from at least 38,000 years ago to 18,000 years ago.
-Which would be the most feasible method of figuring out to which other hominin species H. floresiensis was most closely related?

• A) Compare the type of prey hunted by H. floresiensis to that hunted by each of the other hominin species.
• B) Compare the mitochondrial DNA of H. floresiensis to that of each other hominin species.
• C) Compare the skeletal morphology of H. floresiensis to that of each other hominin species.
• D) Compare the estimated life span of H. floresiensis to that of each other hominin species.
• E) Compare the average body size of H. floresiensis to that of each other hominin species.

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