Q 01/05

The famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton nicknamed Lucy was discovered in 1974 in which country?

A) South Africa

B) Kenya

C) Tanzania

D) Ethiopia

Answer · why

D) Ethiopia

Ethiopia. Donald Johanson spotted an arm bone poking out of a slope at Hadar, and three weeks of digging recovered about 40% of one skeleton, far more...

Q 02/05

Lucy the fossil was named after a song by which band, played in camp the night she was found?

A) The Beach Boys

B) The Rolling Stones

C) The Beatles

D) The Kinks

Answer · why

C) The Beatles

The Beatles. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds played over and over on the camp's tape recorder as the team celebrated that night, and the nickname stuck ...

Q 03/05

Lucy's small skull and two-legged gait support which idea about the order of human evolution?

A) Tool use came before bipedalism

B) Bipedalism came before larger brains

C) Larger brains came before bipedalism

D) Speech came before bipedalism

Answer · why

B) Bipedalism came before larger brains

Bipedalism came before larger brains. Lucy's brain was about the size of a chimpanzee's, and a 2016 study argued that this upright walker died falling...

Q 04/05

Homo floresiensis, the 'Hobbit', was discovered in 2003 on an island of which country?

A) Papua New Guinea

B) Indonesia

C) Philippines

D) Malaysia

Answer · why

B) Indonesia

Indonesia. The adult dug out of Liang Bua cave on Flores stood only about a metre tall, which earned the species its nickname from Tolkien's little pe...

Q 05/05

Which evolutionary process is the leading explanation for the unusual body size of Homo floresiensis?

A) Insular dwarfism

B) Neoteny

C) Island gigantism

D) Founder effect

Answer · why

A) Insular dwarfism

Insular dwarfism. Cut off where food is short and predators are few, large animals tend to shrink over many generations, and the pygmy elephants of Fl...