Animal Domestication and Origins

What was a primary food source for early humans like Australopithecus?

• Farmed crops

• Animal meat

• Collected plants and insects

• Dairy products

How did Homo sapiens adapt to food shortages during the Ice Age?

• They started farming

• They ate more lower-quality plants

• They supplemented their diet with animal meat and bone marrow

• They migrated to warmer climates

What is the term for the process of training and breeding animals to coexist with humans for food or other resources?

• Hunting

• Domestication

• Foraging

• Cultivation

From which wild bird species do modern chickens originate?

• Wild turkey

• Red junglefowl

• Peacock

• Pheasant

Where is the earliest definitive evidence of chicken domestication found?

• India

• Egypt

• Hebei province in China

• Anatolia

What was the primary purpose for which chickens were first domesticated?

• For their meat and eggs

• As pets

• For cockfighting

• For their feathers

From which extinct animal species are modern cattle descended?

• Mammoth

• Bison

• Aurochs

• Wild boar

Where did the domesticated cow species we are familiar with today likely originate?

• India

• China

• Modern-day Turkey

• Brazil

Where did the wild turkey most likely originate?

• Ottoman Empire

• Mexico

• Britain

• Mediterranean

What is the wild ancestor of modern domesticated sheep?

• Bezoar ibex

• Yak

• Mouflon

• Wild ass