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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
1	Which idea is most closely associated with Lamarck?	Anthropology Theories of evolution	Easy
2	Darwin's main book explaining natural selection was published in which year?	Anthropology Theories of evolution	Easy
3	Weismann cut off the tails of mice for many generations, yet the offspring were always born with normal tails…	Anthropology Theories of evolution	Medium
4	What did Neo-Darwinism add to Darwin's original theory?	Anthropology Theories of evolution	Medium
5	In a population of beetles, dark individuals are eaten less by birds on dark tree bark and leave more offspri…	Anthropology Theories of evolution	Hard
6	Which feature is characteristic of almost all primates?	Anthropology Living primates	Easy
7	Which living primates are the closest relatives of humans?	Anthropology Living primates	Easy
8	A primate from South America has a broad nose with sideways-facing nostrils and uses its tail to hang from br…	Anthropology Living primates	Medium
9	The hoolock gibbon found in north-east India differs from the rhesus macaque mainly because the gibbon	Anthropology Living primates	Medium
10	Which combination of traits is best explained as an adaptation to life in trees?	Anthropology Living primates	Hard
11	Which hominin is called "handy man" and linked with the earliest stone tools?	Anthropology Hominid evolution	Easy
12	Java Man and Peking Man are fossils of which species?	Anthropology Hominid evolution	Easy
13	The fossil "Lucy" shows a small, ape-sized brain together with a pelvis and leg bones adapted for walking upr…	Anthropology Hominid evolution	Medium
14	A fossil hominin from Ice Age Europe has a stocky body, a large brain of about 1500 cc, Mousterian tools and …	Anthropology Hominid evolution	Medium
15	Arrange the following in order of increasing average brain size: Homo erectus, Australopithecus, Homo habilis.	Anthropology Hominid evolution	Hard
16	Which pigment is mainly responsible for differences in human skin colour?	Anthropology Human variation	Easy
17	Bergmann's rule states that within a widely spread warm-blooded species, populations in colder regions tend t…	Anthropology Human variation	Easy
18	Why is darker skin common among populations that have lived for many generations near the equator?	Anthropology Human variation	Medium
19	A plains-dwelling visitor to a high mountain region breathes faster and produces more red blood cells within …	Anthropology Human variation	Medium
20	A population of herders with a long history of drinking animal milk shows a high frequency of adults who can …	Anthropology Human variation	Hard