Neanderthals a. lived from about 2 million to 200,000 years ago b. used fire regularly c. cared for their sick and aged d. buried their dead 20. Language of Non-Human Primates a. Vervet monkeys have specific alarm calls for several different predators. The vocalizations of vervet monkeys show syntax and grammar. Captive chimps and bonobos have learned artificial languages based on hand signs and plastic chips.
Captive bonobos can learn to understand simple English language.
Femoral Neck Suppose you visit friends in Ethiopia and stumble upon a hominid fossil, specifically, the upper end of a hominid femur. Your excitement hightens when the sediment in which you found the bone is dated 5.1 million years ago. B. Support your answer in part A by explaining how the biomechanical forces acting on a critical part of the upper femur differ in quadrupedal versus habitually bipedal primates. C. Describe a type of stone tool that occurs abundantly in the late stone age but not earlier. D. Outline some of the variations of the tools described in part C and their apparent uses.