1) (A) Please explain whether you think modern humans (HUMANS ALIVE TODAY) are more reliant on BIOLOGY or CULTURE to survive and (B) Use evidence from the FOSSIL record (our hominid relatives) to explain whether this is similar to or different from what we saw in hominids through time.



2) How do natural and/or sexual selection and/or biocultural evolution influence the biology of the hominids we studied? Use one SPECIFIC species (for example, A. ramidus, H. neanderthalensis or H. erectus) to demonstrate these concepts in our fossil ancestors. Describe which evolutionary process the traits you have chosen are the result of...