Lab Questions 1
Lab Manual & Bones
• (p.317‐321) “Lab Exercise” 13.3 # 1, 2, 3, & 4
– then look for these features on the lab bones
– put a next to the features you can identify on the bones
Video & Discussion
1. Explain some of the causes (selective pressures) &
benefits of bipedalism for the earliest hominins.
2. Use the 9 steps of evolution to explain how quadrupedal
apes could evolve into bipedal hominins.
3. Explain some things that you learned about A. afarensis.
(e.g. dates, locations, physical features, behaviors, etc…)
Please watch the video to answer the questions above. Here is the link for the video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/becoming-human.html#becoming-human-part-1
Lab question 2
Lab Questions
Lab Manual & Bones
• (p.159) “Self‐Test” 7.2 # 4 & 5
• (p.166) “Lab Exercise” 7.3 # 8
• (p.335) “Lab Exercise” 14.1 # 2 (A. afarensis NOT africanus)
– then look for these features on the lab bones
– put a next to the features you can identify on the bones
Video & Discussion
1. Explain some things that you learned about Homo habilis.
(e.g. dates, locations, physical features, behaviors, etc…)
2. Explain some things that you learned about Homo erectus.
(e.g. dates, locations, physical features, behaviors, etc…)
Please watch the video to answer the question above copy this link to watch it:
