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| The amount of solar radiation reflected back into space |
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| Tree that lacks megaherbivores for spreading fruit |
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Weapon technology found in the Americas around 11Ka
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North American parrot extinct in 1920
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| the wobble of the Earth's axis |
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Epoch in which the current Ice Age began
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Homo sapiens hunted species to extinction
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| Island where memmoths existed until recently |
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Author of Guns, Germs and Steel
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| Component of agricultural crops that was rich in mesopotamia |
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Characteristic of domestic animals that allows for easy control of a large group
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Characteristic of domestic animals that allow them to live in large, crowded number
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Continental orientation of the Americas
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| Continental orientation of Eurasia |
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| Spanish conquistador who conqured the Inca |
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| The first step towards civilization |
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| Many advances spread through Eurasia because of this similar distance from the equator |
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| Disease that transfers from wildlife to humans |
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| Island where the Dodo lived |
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| Shape of the Earth's orbit |
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| Land bridge connecting Asia and North America |
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| Ocean current that warms Europe |
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| Another word for large animals, usually herbivores |
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| Two continents that experienced overkill when inland communities began 11 Ka |
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| Unit of cultural information |
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Extinct bird from Mauritius killed by sailors
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| Extinct bird from Mauritius killed by sailors |
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| Mejor geographic effect of drops in sea level |
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Continent that experiences overkill 50-45 Ka when Homo sapians arrived
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| Armadillos the size of VW bugs |
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| Current along the west coast of South America |
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| Mountain range that erupt along the west coast of South America during Cenozoic |
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| First 25 Ma, elephants and mastadons move out of Africa. Antelope, rhinos, giraffes and cats move in. |
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| Sloths out of S. America. Raccoons invade S. America and replace the last of the marsupial carnovires. |
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| 3 Ma, monkeys, armadillos and porcoupines move out of S. America. Smiledons, camels and elephants invade S. America. |
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| Insectivore on New Zealand |
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| Lineage that became a major S. American predator after the Small American Exchange |
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| Southern mammals that include elephants and hyraxes |
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| Marsupial version of the sabre toothed cat |
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| 8 Ft tall bird predator in S. America |
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| Northern mammals including carnivores and ungulates |
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| Southern mammals that include sloths and anteaters |
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| Brain 93% if modern with advanced tools in Europe and Africa |
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| The first hominins, ramidus had opposable toes |
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| marker of acheulean tools, brain 74% of modern |
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| Group that includes apes and hominins |
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| Australopithecus afarensis |
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| Brain 35% of modern, includes Lucy |
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| Volcano that may have caused a population bottleneck 70 Ka; made homos bottleneck |
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| Prosimians found in Southeastern Asia |
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| Ridge on head for powerful jaw muscles |
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| The first upright hominins |
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| small island form of Homo erectus |
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| Miocene dryomorph, a primitive african ape |
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| Group that includes lemurs and tarsiers |
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| Miocene sivapithecid that was 9 ft tall |
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| maker of the Oldowan tools |
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| Movement by swinging of the arms |
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| Group that includes the human lineage |
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| Eocene enthropoid that was a powerful, slow-moving climber |
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| lived in Europe and Middle East with a large solid build |
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| Group that includes monkeys, apes and hominins |
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| Prosimian found in madagascar |
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| Eocene anthropoid that was small, light and fast moving |
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| First hominin to use fire, spread to Asia |
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| Ancestor of bears and dogs |
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| Even-toed hooved mammals like deer, giraffe and antelope |
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| epoch in which hominid evolution occured |
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epoch marked by first grasslands
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| Epoch marked by multiple ice ages |
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| Epoch marked by human technology |
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| Tall browser from the olligocene; a perissodactyl |
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Eocene perissodactyl larger than a rhino
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| Odd-toed hooved mammals such as horses, rhinos and tapirs |
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| Epoch in which grasslands expand over large areas |
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| Ancestor of whales eocene |
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| Medium sized knuckle walker from the oligocene |
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| Epoch of recovery after the Cretaceous Extinction |
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| Easily categorized way of life that has evolved multiple times in different organisms |
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| Epoch with a planet-wide tropical climate |
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