best friend, who is a curator at a Natural History Museum calls you up one day to ask for your help identifying an unknown specimen she found in an unmarked box in a closet at the museum.  In order to help her you

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Scenario:  Your best friend, who is a curator at a Natural History Museum calls you up one day to ask for your help identifying an unknown specimen she found in an unmarked box in a closet at the museum.  In order to help her you know that you have to first identify some cranial traits present.

Mark all of the traits that are present.  Remember that the lack of a trait is just as informative!

 

-occipital bun
-sagittal crest
-relatively large and pointy canines (compared to modern humans)
-no sagittal crest
-small cranial capacity with wide base (maximum cranial breadth is below the ears)
-large cranial capacity (maximum cranial breadth is above the ear)
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Select all of the traits provided below that appear in this specimen:

 

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Hello, thank you for the study images included. I need to know which of the following traits listed below are identifiable on the images I have included. Thanks. 

 

-occipital bun
-sagittal crest
-relatively large and pointy canines (compared to modern humans)
-no sagittal crest
-small cranial capacity with wide base (maximum cranial breadth is below the ears)
-large cranial capacity (maximum cranial breadth is above the ear)
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