Exams
Four exams will be given during the
course of the semester.Each exam will consist of 50 multiple choice
questions.Your final grade will be based on your three best exams.That is, the lowest
grade will be dropped.No make-up exams will be given.If you miss an exam, you
will be given an “E” for that exam and your grade will be based on the three
exams that you take.
Use the study guides provided in
class.In particular, be sure you known what the terms
on the study guide mean. If a technical term, site, or person is not on the
study guide, chances are good that you will not be asked about it.
Folders containing old exams are on
reserve in Butler Library.You may check them out for two hours at the
circulation desk.Look at these to get an idea of the kinds of things you may be
asked.Answers to the questions are not provided, so be wary of any circled
answers on these exams.
Exam I
This exam is scheduled for Friday,
Feb. 7 and covers chapters 1-4 as well as the lectures and videos from the
first 3 weeks.Chapters 2-4 lay the foundation for understanding how human
evolution occurred.
In
Chapter 1, know what is meant by the various academic specialties. What would
an osteologist study? What would a palynologist study? How did Charles Darwin
come up with the idea of natural selection, discussed in Chapter 2? Note that he was not the first to suggest the
idea of evolution. Chapter 3 discusses
biological inheritance and you should be prepared to do simple inheritance
problems. Why are approximately the same number of males and females born? Note
that we skip over some sections of chapter 3. Chapter 4 discusses
microevolution. Be sure you understand what is meant by allele frequency,
genotype frequency, and phenotype frequency.
Don’t confuse polygenic and polymorphic. For example, the ABO
blood group system is a polymorphism, but it is not a polygenic trait.
Review I
Wed. Feb.
5 2:00 P.M. Classroom B-116 Sarah
Thurs. Feb. 6
12:15 P.M.
Classroom B-116 Kelly
Exam 2
This exam is scheduled for
Monday, March 10 and covers
chapters 6-9 as well as the lectures, slides, and videos since exam 1.We do not
cover chapter 5. If certain questions were frequently missed on exam 1, they may
be asked again, possibly with minor changes.
Chapters 6-8 deal with primate physical characteristics, social
behavior, and evolution, while chapter 9 deals with methods.
Study Hints. Look at the pictures of primates in your
text, as you may be asked some slide identification questions. In what ways are we similar to other primates
and in what ways are humans unique?
Answering this question helps us to define what it means to be human.
Know what is meant by anthropoid, hominoid, pongid, and hominid. Be sure to
distinguish between intraspecific and interspecific. When reading about
mammalian and primate evolution in chapter 8, think about what you learned in
chapter 4. Chapter 9 talks about
archaeology since we begin the discussion of early human behavior and its
byproducts.
Review Thurs.
March 6 12:15 Classroom B-116 (Kelly)
Review
Fri. March 7 2:00
Classroom B-116 (Sarah)
Exam 3
This exam is scheduled for Friday,
April 4 and covers chapters 10-12. as well as the lectures, slides and videos
since the last exam. Questions which were frequently missed on past exams may
appear in slightly different form. These chapters present the bulk of direct
evidence pertaining to human evolution.
Study
Hints: You are not expected to remember every fossil, every date, and every
site mentioned in the text. Concentrate on those emphasized in class. The
authors of your text have included all the detail so that you know that there
is a lot of evidence relating to human evolution. Go for the big picture. Part
of that picture is that for much of the time there has been more than one
hominid species alive at the same time. Try and get a general sense of when the
major species were alive and what they were like both physically and culturally.
Review on Wed.
April 2, 2:00 in Classroom B-116
(Sarah)
Review on Thurs.
April 3, 12:15 in Classroom B-116
(Kelly)
Final Exam
This exam is scheduled for Monday,
May 5 at 9:40 for the 10:00 A.M. class and Tuesday, May 6 at 9:40 for the 11:00
A.M. class. The exam will take place in
our regular classroom. This exam is cumulative. Approximately 15 questions will
deal with earlier material and the remaining questions will deal with material
covered in chapters 13-17.Note that you are required to read only portions of
chapters 15-17, not the entire chapters. The best way to review earlier
material is to look over your earlier exams. Copies of earlier final exams are
not on reserve. The final is given the same weight as the earlier exams. If you
have taken the three earlier exams, you are not required to take the final, but
you have nothing to lose. There is always the possibility that you can improve
your average.
Study
Hints: These chapters deal with the way of life of humans who were physically
similar to modern people. For our purposes, we are dealing with three different
ways of life: 1) hunting and gathering (chapts. 13 and 15); 2) farming (chapt.
16); and 3) civilization (chapt. 17). If you can generally characterize these
different ways of life, you can characterize the cultures discussed as examples
of each. How do city dwellers differ from village farmers or hunters and
gatherers?
Review on Thurs. May 1, 12:15 in Classroom B-116 (Kelly)
Review on Friday, May 2 at 11:00 in Classroom B-116 (Sarah). Friday is a study day (no classes scheduled).
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