Human Origins: Two Accounts, Side by Side: Homework

Know the primate traits, sort what was found from what is claimed, and say what each account says.

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Part A — Key Words / 4

Type the word that fits each clue.

1.
A thumb crosses the palm and touches the tip of each finger. What kind of thumb is it?Answer
2.
Monkeys, apes and humans belong to one group of mammals. What is it called?Answer
3.
In the textbook, these are humanlike primates that walk upright and have a bigger brain than other great apes. What are they?Answer
4.
What is the scientific name for modern humans, meaning wise human?Answer

Short answers. Think about why.

1.
Name one of the three traits that all primates share.Answer
2.
How does having both eyes face forward help a primate in the trees?Answer
3.
Hemoglobin is nearly the same in chimpanzees, gorillas and humans. What does that protein carry?Answer
4.
Lucy's leg and hip bones show what about the way she moved?Answer
5.
Why can't a claim about the distant past be tested by an experiment, according to the lesson?Answer

Sort what was found from what is claimed, then say what each account says.

1.
Write FOUND if anyone can look at it, measure it or date it. Write CLAIM if it is a statement about the distant past that nobody watched.
a. The skeleton's leg and hip bones are shaped for walking upright.Answer
b. These fossils are a line of ancestors leading from the primates to people.Answer
c. The cave paintings in France show bison and horses.Answer
2.
According to the common-descent account, what do people and the apes share?Answer
3.
According to the creation account, in whose image were people made?Answer

Answer each one in one sentence. You mark these yourself against the key.

1.
In one sentence, say what each account claims about where people came from.Answer
2.
Name one thing both accounts accept about the bones, and one thing they disagree on.Answer

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Notes

Part A — the answers.

Part B — the answers.

An opposable thumb, forward-facing eyes (binocular vision) or flexible shoulders.
It can judge how far away a branch is.
Oxygen, in red blood cells.
She walked upright.
Nobody watched it, and nothing can repeat it.

Part C — the answers.

a. FOUND. Anyone can look at the bones. b. CLAIM. Nobody watched it happen. c. FOUND. They can be looked at and dated.
An ancestor.
In God's own image.

Part D — what a good answer includes.

Answers vary. A good answer says common descent holds that people and the apes share an ancestor and the fossils are steps along the way, and the creation account holds that God made people on purpose, different from the animals, in his own image. It does not say which is true.
Answers vary. A good answer says both accept that the bones were really found and measured, and that they disagree about what the bones say about where people came from.