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To explain why human evolution would proceed gradually and in the same direction in various parts of the Old World, multiregional theorists point to cultural improvements in ______________.

Toward the end of the Acheulian period a technique was developed, called the __________ method, which enabled the toolmaker to produce flake tools of a predetermined size.

In __________, researchers completed the first draft of the Neandertal genome, from which they concluded that the Neandertal and modern human genomes share 99.5-99.9%, forcing a reconsideration of the relationship of modern humans and Neandertals.

__________ and her colleagues presented evidence that the modern ancestor of all living people – from the United States, New Guinea, Africa, to East Asia – lived about 200,000 years ago.

Tools made in the Upper Paleolithic suggest that the people were much more effective hunters and fishers than their predecessors because __________ have been discovered.

In Ali Kosh in southwestern Iran after about 5500 B.C., __________ were two important innovations.

New evidence suggests that people were hunting big game as long as _________ years ago.

According to the model of human evolution in your readings, the presumed common ancestor of chimpanzees and modern humans lived about __________ million years ago.

Differences in Neandertal skulls from modern human skulls include the following, except for ___________.

Anthropologists speculate that early stone tools found in East Africa were made by __________.