Quiz  /  Australopithecus vs. Homo Quiz

  • 1. 
    Neanderthals belong to which group?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 2. 
    Your parents, siblings, and all other human beings alive today belong to which genus?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 3. 
    “Lucy,” the fossil specimen found by Donald Johanson in 1974, belongs to which genus?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 4. 
    Several paleontologists argue that the controversial Ledi-Geraru mandible is the oldest artifact attributed to which genus?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 5. 
    Which of these lived during the Pleistocene and Pliocene epochs?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 6. 
    An early species within which genus migrated away from Africa to many corners of the Old World?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 7. 
    A member of which genus was discovered in 2008 at the Malapa Cave system in South Africa by Matthew Berger, the son of paleontologist Lee Berger?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo

  • 8. 
    The first modern representatives of which genus are thought to have emerged at the Omo site in Ethiopia some 200,000 years ago?

  • Australopithecus
  • Homo
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