Master NEET Zoology with topic-wise questions. Tailored for NEET students, these questions strengthen your Biology preparation.
The 'Taung Child' fossil, discovered by Raymond Dart, is significant because it provided evidence for which of the following hypotheses regarding human evolution?
Large brain size was the primary driver of early hominin evolution.
Bipedalism preceded significant brain enlargement.
Tool use developed before bipedalism.
Early hominins originated in Asia.
How Australopithecus skull differs from the skull of modern man?
Larger cranial capacity, less prognathism, reduced supraorbital ridge, absent sagittal crest, centrally positioned foramen magnum, and smaller teeth in Australopithecus compared to modern humans.
Smaller cranial capacity, more prognathism, prominent supraorbital ridge, possible sagittal crest, posteriorly positioned foramen magnum, and larger teeth in Australopithecus compared to modern humans.
Similar cranial capacity, similar facial structure, and dentition in Australopithecus and modern humans.
Australopithecus possessed a larger braincase, less facial projection, and smaller teeth compared to modern humans.
Which of the following statement is correct about Australopithecus
They were quadrupedal and had a larger brain size than humans.
They exhibited bipedalism but had a smaller brain size than humans.
They lived primarily in Europe and Asia.
They were not considered to be in the human lineage.
