Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each

question 29

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each.
-hominins

• A)includes modern humans and their extinct bipedal relatives.
• B)a population of Homo spp. that lived from as recently as 28,000 years ago; tool users and artisans
• C)the order that includes animals with freely swiveling limbs, mobile grasping digits, upright body posture, good depth perception, and flat fingernails
• D)organisms in a group that includes New World and Old World monkeys, apes, and humans
• E)wet-nosed primates
• F)informal name for chimpanzee-sized hominins that lived in Africa from 4 million to 1.2 million years ago
• G)anthropoids without tails

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