Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each.​

question 9

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each.​

-Miocene

• 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 exquisite neural control
• D) organisms in a group that includes New World and Old World monkeys, apes, and humans
• E) an era that began 65 to 63 million years ago; characterized by the evolution of birds, mammals, and flowering plants
• F) an epoch of the Cenozoic lasting from 23.8 million to 5.3 million years ago; characterized by the appearance of hominoid species now assigned to the genus Proconsul
• G) an epoch of the Cenozoic lasting from 5.3 million to 1.8 million years ago; characterized by the appearance of distinctly modern plants and animals
• H) informal name for chimpanzee-sized hominins that lived in Africa from 4 million to 1.2 million years ago.
• I) a group including humans and human-like species

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