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WorksheetsEvolution of Humans
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 18mins
(a) is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors.
Which of these species belongs to the Purgatorius genus?
Plesiadapis tricuspidens
Purgatorius unio
Darwinius masilae
Notharctus tenebrosus
Who discovered Plesiadapis?
Charles Darwin
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois
François Louis Paul Gervais
William King
(a) is specially adapted to eating fruit, seeds, and invertebrates.
How much did Carpolestes simpsoni weighed?
100 g (3.5 oz)
1 kg (35 oz)
10 kg (350 oz)
100 kg (3500 oz)
(a) is the only known fossil of Darwinius masillae.
How many years ago did Aegyptopithecus existed?
38-29.5 mya
40-30 mya
50-40 mya
36.5-6.5 mya
Who was the ancestor of gibbons, great apes and humans?
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Proconsul
Australopithecus
Stegosaurus
Which of the following epochs did Dryopithecus existed?
Miocene
Pleistocene
Holocene
Oligocene
Which of these words are the synonyms of Sivapithecus?
Ramapithecus
Brahmapithecus
Sahelanthropus
Ouranopithecus
(a) is an extinct genus of hominid dated to about 7 million years ago during the Late Miocene.
Which of these is species from Orrorin genus.
Ar. ramidus and Ar. kadabba
Au. afarensis and Au. africanus
Ou. macedoniensis and Ou. turkae
O. tugenenesis and O. praegens
Who was the first ancestor of humans who diverged from the chimpanzees?
Australopithecus
Ardipithecus
Sahelanthropus
Proconsul
Which species should be considered simply a western variant of A. afarensis instead of a separate species.
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Homo erectus
Paranthropus boisei
Kenyanthropus platyops
How many years ago did Paranthropus existed?
4-1 mya
3-0.9 mya
2.9-1.2 mya
2-0.34 mya
Who derived meat from scavenging rather than hunting?
Australopithecus africanus
Paranthropus boisei
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Which species Coexisted with Homo habilis?
H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster and Paranthropus boisei
Australopithecus sediba, H. erectus and Gigantopithecus blacki
H. erectus, Paranthropus boisei and Gigantopithecus Blacki
Woolly Mammoth, Dodo and H. sapiens
Which species is also called as "African Homo erectus".
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo habilis
Who was the first human ancestor to spread throughout Eurasia?
Homo sapiens
Neanderthal
Homo erectus
Denisovan
How much brain volume did Homo antecessor had?
1200 cc (73.22849 cu in)
1100 cc (67.12612 cu in)
1024 cc (62.48831 cu in)
1000 cc (61 cu in)
(a) is now widely considered a synonym of Homo heidelbergensis.
Who was the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals?
Homo ergaster
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo erectus
Denisovan
Which species evolved from Homo ergaster?
Homo erectus
Homo antecessor
Homo floresiensis
Homo heidelbergensis
What are the other names for Neanderthals?
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo erectus neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo heidelbergensis neanderthalensis
The type specimen, (a) , was found in 1856 in the Neander Valley in present-day Germany.
Which archaic human ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic?
Neanderthal
Homo erectus
Denisovan
Homo floresiensis
Which of these is the species name for modern humans.
Homo erectus
Pan troglodytes
Homo sapiens
Gorilla gorilla
Who is the last surviving species from the Homo genus?
Neanderthal
Modern human
Denisovan
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo erectus
