Harper BIO101 The Human Family Tree Documentary Latest 2020 MAY

BIO101 Biology Survey

The Human Family Tree Documentary

1.Why did National Geographic choose Queens, New York to do their DNA sampling experiment?

2.How many people have given their DNA to this project?

3.What can DNA from cheek swabs tell people about their ancestors?

4.When did the first Homo sapiens live in Africa?

5. Why are humans so physically varied in appearance?

6. How closely identical is your DNA to the DNA of another human that you are not related to?

7. Which DNA do they study in men to trace ancestry?

8. Which DNA do they study in women to trace ancestry?

9. What are DNA “markers”? How are they useful?

10. What effect did climate change (the ice age in the North and drought in Africa) have on the evolution of human populations?

11.  What are some reasons why humans might have left Africa? How many years ago did this happen?

12. Where did humans go initially after leaving Africa?

13. Explain why and how humans were able to travel throughout the SE Asian Islands during the last Ice Age.    

14. True/False People moved very quickly from Africa to Australia.

15.  Why don’t we have more remnants and fossils from these early populations?

16.  What is significant about the findings in the volcanic ash in India?

17. How did isolation affect the evolution of the tribe of people in the Philippines who are short and have curly, dark hair?

18. Where did the people who made up the second human wave out of Africa settle?

19. What adaptations evolved in people who lived in the colder regions of the tundra of central Asia?

20. Why did people who had lighter skin survive and reproduce more successfully in areas where it was colder and darker?

21. What does our DNA tell us about differences in race?

22. About 35% of African American men carry similar European lineages.

23.  When did the first modern humans enter Europe?

24.  Who did modern humans contend with when they entered Europe?

25. How did people first get to North America?  How long ago did this happen?

26.  What is coprolite?

27.  How were the first Americans cut off from the rest of humanity until Columbus? 

28. What did you learn from watching this film?