Multiple Choice Quiz on Human Evolution

This quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in 'human evolution. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Get score'. Percentage scores will be displayed along with the right answers.

1. The most apparent change during the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens is traced in
loss of body hair
walking upright
shortening of the jaws
remarkable increase in the brain size
2. Which of the following is the most primitive ancestor of man?
Homo habilis
Ramapithecus punjabicus
Austalopithecus
Homo neanderthalensis
3. Hominids originated during
miocene
pliocene
oligocene
palaecocene
4. The earliest fossil of prehistoric man is
Dryopithecus
Ramapithecus
Sivapithecus
Australopithecus
5. The extinct representative of the present-day living man is
cro magnon man
erect man
java man
nanderthal man
6. First evidence of ceremonial burial of dead body and believed in religious have been found with fossil of
neanderthal
cro magnon
Homo erectus
Homohabilis
7. The tailess primate is
lemur
spider monkey
African baboon
Loris
8. The prehistoric man which lived on earth during pleistocene period
cro magnon
atlantic man
neanderthal man
Austrlopithecus
9. The modern man differs from the apes in
absence of tail
sparse body hair
broaden chest due to flattening of sternum
arms shorter than legs
10. The chronological order of human evolution from early to the recent is
Ramapithecus- Australopitheus- Homo habilis- Homo erectus
Ramapithecus-Homo habilis- Australopitheus- Homo erectus
Pithecanthropus pekinensis- Dryopithecus- Homohabilis- Homo erectus
Australopitheus- Homo erectus- Ramapithecus-Homo habilis
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