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Over which land bridge did people first reach the Americas?
Answer: Beringia
Why: Ice Age glaciers locked up so much seawater that the seabed between Siberia and Alaska became dry land hundreds of kilometres wide.
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What does the name Australopithecus mean?
Answer: Southern ape
Why: Raymond Dart named it in 1925 for a skull from South Africa, so the 'southern' has nothing to do with Australia.
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What most likely killed the Taung Child?
Answer: An eagle
Why: Tiny punctures at the base of its eye sockets match the marks that modern eagles' talons leave on monkey skulls.
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How much of our DNA matches a chimpanzee's?
Answer: About 99%
Why: That figure compares matching DNA letters; counting stretches one species has and the other lacks lowers the match to about 96 percent.
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How many chromosomes do chimpanzees have?
Answer: 48
Why: Our chromosome 2 is two ancestral ape chromosomes fused end to end, which is why we have one pair fewer.
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Where was the 7-million-year-old skull Toumaï found?
Answer: Chad
Why: Its desert site lies about 2,500 km west of East Africa's Rift Valley, where the previous oldest hominin finds came from.
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