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Course: American Museum of Natural History > Unit 3
Lesson 2: Human evolution: the evidence (American Museum of Natural History)- Dr. Ian Tattersall pieces together the human past
- Glossary
- Seven million years of human evolution
- Understanding our past: DNA
- What is the evidence for human evolution
- Searching for Human Ancestors in East Africa
- Expedition Rusinga—uncovering our adaptive origins
- Quiz: Human evolution
- Exploration Questions: Human evolution
- Answers to Exploration Questions: Human evolution
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Exploration Questions: Human evolution
Reflect on what you've learned in this lesson by responding to the exploration questions below.
1. What were some general physical changes in hominin skull evolution?
2. Why would paleontologists studying ancient primates be interested in fossils of other organisms discovered at the same site? What did paleontologists on Rusinga Island in Kenya learn about the ancient primate Proconsul by identifying fossils in two separate sites? How does this discovery apply to human evolution?
3. Explain the difference between DNA in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA, and Y-chromosome DNA. Where is each found? How is each passed down? Why are scientists who study evolution interested in mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome DNA?
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do we have nuclear DNA(1 vote)