2. Some structural similarities between large apes and modern humans suggest…
3. The Pleistocene epoch is characterized by…
4. The main trends in the evolution of the human skull…
5. The curves of the human vertebral column have developed…
6. Human knees lock back because…
7. Due to the thighbones’ inclining towards the midline…
8. Human arms swing during walking in order to…
9. Human hands are capable of the precision grip due to…
10. As a result of the parallel development of the human brain and hands…
VI. Look for the English equivalents of the following words in the text “Anthropogenesis”
Наближатись, відповідати; вражаючий, помітний; значення; початок, настання; обертання; ефективний, результативний; нахил; такий, що приводить у рух; точність; попутно.
VII. Use the words and expressions from the previous exercise to fill in the gaps in the sentences below
1. The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the _________ of symptoms.
2. The angle of the telescope’s _________ is 43 degrees.
3. The Miocene epoch was a _________ phase in primate evolution in which there appears to have been an increase in the numbers of larger primates that were widely spread throughout the Old World.
4. The males and females of this taxon may have been markedly different in body size, which has _________ for any attempts to reconstruct the social organization of these creatures.
5. The rise of criminal rate occurred _________ with the rise of urbanism.
6. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to complete one _________ around the sun.
7. The bones of this specimen are still apelike in some features, but it is almost certain that the individual from which they came could manipulate objects with _________.
8. My new computer is much faster and more _________ than the old one was.
9. Sunlight is absorbed by dark surface materials and heats the surface to temperatures that sometimes _________ normal room temperature on Earth.
10. The feet are the base, in both standing and walking, through which weight and _________ efforts are transmitted to the ground.