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ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 3 WVU 2025 Questions and Answers what makes us human? - --CORRECT ANSWER--Bipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism - --CORRECT ANSWER--stresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls - --CORRECT ANSWER--Early hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency - --CORRECT ANSWER--Compared with the young of other primates, human children have a long period of childhood dependency, during which their brains and skulls grow dramatically. tools - --CORRECT ANSWER--Early hominins shared the ability to use and manufacture tools as a homology with the apes. upright bipedalism - --CORRECT ANSWER--would have permitted the use and carriage of tools and weapons against predators in an open grassland habitat. ....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 1