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1. The ancestral form supposed to begin human genealogy must have shown which of the following characteristics as signs of human characteristics:
Intelligence
Erect posture
Grasping
All of these
2. Intelligence was important characteristics for human evolution because it enables human being capable of:
Abstract thinking planning
Logical and syllabic speech
Expression of emotions by facial muscles
All of these
3. Erect posture in human begins is respobsible for making the face:
Orthognathous
Prognathous
Both (a) & (b)
None of these
4. Orthognathous face in human beings has been formed as a result of shifting of skull to apical position due to:
Forward and downward shifting of formen magnum
Only forward shifting of foramen magnum
Only downward shifting of foramen magnum
Any other reason
5. Which of the following features could not be regarded correct in the line of human evolution:
Opposable thumb
Reduced fertility due to increased gestation and single child birth
Rolled out lips and elevated breasts
Decrease in intelligence
6. Which of the following animals mark the beginning of primate base where from the evolution of man has taken place:
Elephant shrews
Teee shrews
Lemurs and Tarsiers
Prosimians
7. Elephant shrews are supposed to mark the beginning of primate base due to which of the following features:
Digitigrade pes
Abdominal testes
1-3 pairs of mammary glands
All of these
8. One of the major advantage of bepedalism is that it:
Releases the forelimbs for other purposes
Increases speed of locomotion
Gives better support to body
Reduces body wieght
9. Which of the following statements is correct with regards to human genaeology:
Anatomically apes are ancestors of man
Proconsul was possibly the common ancestor of apes and man
Proconsul was the ancestor of man not of apes
None of these
10. Tree shrews which arose from elephant shrews had:
Reduced snout and olfactory receptors
Testes sacs
Eyes shifted to front and with rods
All of these
11. Which of the following changes occurred in the direction of development of sensitivity in the series of human evolution were:
Stereoscopic vision from monocular vision
Development of rods and cones it retina
Reduction in olfaction
All of these
12. Changes brought about in order to provide erect posture during course of human evolution were:
Formation of smaller trunk by reducing lumber vertebrae
Changing of prognathous jaws to orthognathous
Shifting of formen magnum
All of these
13. Which of the following statements is correct :
Proconsul was common ancestor of apes and man
Proconsul was more near to an ape
Proconsul was near to man and apes both
None of these
14. Which of the following characters is not related in the direction of evolution of man:
Sterioscopic vision
Development of brain
Scrotum
Claws of fingers
15. Lemuroids which arose from tree shrews showed important advancements:
Only in limbs due to opposable thumbs
In body size
In the olfactory power
In none of these
16. The character which was not in the direction of evolution of human species is:
Binocular vision
Brow ridges
Shortening of jaws
Prehensile tail
17. The character of Tarsius in the direction of evolution of man-like primates was its:
Large eyes
Small nose
Small frontal portion of head
All of these
18. In which of the following form the highly mobile could rotate head so much that it can face backwards (180?):
Elephant shrews
Tree shrew
Tarsius
None of these
19. Tarsioids were found to live in pairs and the female had menstrual cycle whether the statements is:
TRUE
FALSE
Partially true
No idea
20. Old World Monkeys led to evolution of apes and man this statement can be supported by one of the following facts that they have:
Better developed brain smaller pinnae rods and cones in retina
Continuous spermatogenesis in male and menstruation in female
Pronate-supinate pes
All of these
21. Earliest fossil Old World Monkey leading evolution of apes and man was:
Oligopithecus
Australopithecus
Ramapithecus
Dryopithecus
22. Oligopithecus excavated from Oligocene rocks of Faiyam Depression in Sahara Desert near Cairo in Egypt (Africa) possessed:
32 teeth with dental formula i2/2 c1/1 p2/2 m3/3
4 - cusped molars
Canines somewhat larger than other teeth
All of these
23. Which of the following characteristics of apes show close phylogenetic relationship with man:
Larger head longer neck and limbs broaden chest prominent browridges and absence of tail
Facial expressions for rage surprise pleasure laughter and capability to communicate
Living in couples and females have menstruation
All of these
24. Evolution of man was possible perhaps because our ape-like ancestors:
Had no food problem
Adopted group hunting
Used fire
Adopted bipedalism upon open ground
25. Which of the following is not in the spe-stock of human evolution;
Propiopithecus and Aegyptopithecus
Limnopithecus and Pliopithecus
Dryopithecus and Shivalipithecus
Oligopithecus and Australopithecus
26. Name given to fossil man of Shivalic Hills in India is:
Propliopithecus
Ramapithecus
Sinanthropus
Propliopithecus
27. Which one of the following fossils was quite like Dryopithecus but showed some divergence towards human evolutionary line and has been a promising one to represent the starting point at which human line of evolution branched off from ape line about 1.5 crore years ago:
Dryopithecus
Shivalipithecus
Propliopithecus
Pliopithecus
28. First probable fossil man was:
Australopithecus
Pithecanthropus
Ramapithecus
Homo habilis
29. Zoological name of man is:
Homo habilis
Homo erectus erectus
Home sapiens sapiens
Homo sapiens futuris
30. Homo erectus erectus is scientific name of:
Java man
Peking man
African man
Java and Peking man
31. With which of the following fossils first evidence of burial of dead have been found:
Java man
Cro-Magnon
Homo heidelbergensis
Peking man
32. In which of the following continent most of the fossils of primitive man have been excavated:
Africa
Asia
America
Australia
33. Which of the following ancestors of man first stood erect:
Java Ape-man
Australopithecus
Peking man
Cro-magnon
34. Old World Monkeys apes and man had certain similarities which are:
Reduced tail with non-prehensile nature
Pronated palms
Menstrual cycle
All of these
35. Great apes and Man have which of the following similarities:
Absence of tail
Browridges
Increased cranial capacity
All of these
36. Cro-Magnon was:
Vegetarian
Frugivorous
Carnivorous
Omnivorous
37. Chief character of man having importance in the direction of evolutionary line was:
Large cranial capacity
Logical speech
Downwardly directed foramen magnum
All of these
38. Which primitive man was using tools:
Sinanthropus
Pithecanthropus
Australopithecus
Ramaplihecus
39. Scientific names of Java man and modern man respectively are:
Home erectus erectus and homo sapiens sapiens
Homo spiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens futuris
Homo sapiens heiderbergensis and Homo sapiens fossilis
Homo erectus pekinensis and Home erectus mauritancus
40. Burial dead bodies was found in:
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo erectus pekinensis
Homo spiens fossilis
Homo erectus erectus
41. Which of these is Cro-Magnon:
Homo erectus erectus
Homo sapiens fossilis
Homo sapiens futuris
None of these
42. Difference in Homo erectus and Cro-Magnon was in the:
Cranial capacity
Intelligence
Shape of jaw
All of these
43. Which is true for Homo sapiens sapiens:
Cranial capacity 1450cc
Protruded mouth
Carnivorous diet
None of these
44. Skull of pithecanthropus erectus was discovered in:
India
China
Java
Africa
45. Closest relative of modern man is:
Gibbon
Orang utan
Gorilla
Sinanthropus
46. Neanderthal - Man existed during:
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
47. Ramapithecus is name of fossil man of:
Shivalik hill of India
Java
Africa
China
48. Fossil of Pithecanthropus were found in:
Java
China
Africa
Germany
49. Old World Monkeys apes and man had certain similarities which are:
Reduced tail with non-prehensile nature
Pronated palms
Menstrual cycle
All of these
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