R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Zoology Zoology - Evolution Of Man Mcq Questions

The ancestral form supposed to begin human genealogy must have shown which of the following characteristics as signs of human characteristics:

1. Intelligence
2. Erect posture
3. Grasping
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Intelligence was important characteristics for human evolution because it enables human being capable of:

1. Abstract thinking planning
2. Logical and syllabic speech
3. Expression of emotions by facial muscles
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Erect posture in human begins is respobsible for making the face:

1. Orthognathous
2. Prognathous
3. Both (a) & (b)
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Orthognathous face in human beings has been formed as a result of shifting of skull to apical position due to:

1. Forward and downward shifting of formen magnum
2. Only forward shifting of foramen magnum
3. Only downward shifting of foramen magnum
4. Any other reason

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following features could not be regarded correct in the line of human evolution:

1. Opposable thumb
2. Reduced fertility due to increased gestation and single child birth
3. Rolled out lips and elevated breasts
4. Decrease in intelligence

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following animals mark the beginning of primate base where from the evolution of man has taken place:

1. Elephant shrews
2. Teee shrews
3. Lemurs and Tarsiers
4. Prosimians

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Elephant shrews are supposed to mark the beginning of primate base due to which of the following features:

1. Digitigrade pes
2. Abdominal testes
3. 1-3 pairs of mammary glands
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of the major advantage of bepedalism is that it:

1. Releases the forelimbs for other purposes
2. Increases speed of locomotion
3. Gives better support to body
4. Reduces body wieght

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following statements is correct with regards to human genaeology:

1. Anatomically apes are ancestors of man
2. Proconsul was possibly the common ancestor of apes and man
3. Proconsul was the ancestor of man not of apes
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Tree shrews which arose from elephant shrews had:

1. Reduced snout and olfactory receptors
2. Testes sacs
3. Eyes shifted to front and with rods
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following changes occurred in the direction of development of sensitivity in the series of human evolution were:

1. Stereoscopic vision from monocular vision
2. Development of rods and cones it retina
3. Reduction in olfaction
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Changes brought about in order to provide erect posture during course of human evolution were:

1. Formation of smaller trunk by reducing lumber vertebrae
2. Changing of prognathous jaws to orthognathous
3. Shifting of formen magnum
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statements is correct :

1. Proconsul was common ancestor of apes and man
2. Proconsul was more near to an ape
3. Proconsul was near to man and apes both
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following characters is not related in the direction of evolution of man:

1. Sterioscopic vision
2. Development of brain
3. Scrotum
4. Claws of fingers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Lemuroids which arose from tree shrews showed important advancements:

1. Only in limbs due to opposable thumbs
2. In body size
3. In the olfactory power
4. In none of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The character which was not in the direction of evolution of human species is:

1. Binocular vision
2. Brow ridges
3. Shortening of jaws
4. Prehensile tail

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The character of Tarsius in the direction of evolution of man-like primates was its:

1. Large eyes
2. Small nose
3. Small frontal portion of head
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In which of the following form the highly mobile could rotate head so much that it can face backwards (180?):

1. Elephant shrews
2. Tree shrew
3. Tarsius
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Tarsioids were found to live in pairs and the female had menstrual cycle whether the statements is:

1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. Partially true
4. No idea

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Old World Monkeys led to evolution of apes and man this statement can be supported by one of the following facts that they have:

1. Better developed brain smaller pinnae rods and cones in retina
2. Continuous spermatogenesis in male and menstruation in female
3. Pronate-supinate pes
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Earliest fossil Old World Monkey leading evolution of apes and man was:

1. Oligopithecus
2. Australopithecus
3. Ramapithecus
4. Dryopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Oligopithecus excavated from Oligocene rocks of Faiyam Depression in Sahara Desert near Cairo in Egypt (Africa) possessed:

1. 32 teeth with dental formula i2/2 c1/1 p2/2 m3/3
2. 4 - cusped molars
3. Canines somewhat larger than other teeth
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following characteristics of apes show close phylogenetic relationship with man:

1. Larger head longer neck and limbs broaden chest prominent browridges and absence of tail
2. Facial expressions for rage surprise pleasure laughter and capability to communicate
3. Living in couples and females have menstruation
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Evolution of man was possible perhaps because our ape-like ancestors:

1. Had no food problem
2. Adopted group hunting
3. Used fire
4. Adopted bipedalism upon open ground

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not in the spe-stock of human evolution;

1. Propiopithecus and Aegyptopithecus
2. Limnopithecus and Pliopithecus
3. Dryopithecus and Shivalipithecus
4. Oligopithecus and Australopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Name given to fossil man of Shivalic Hills in India is:

1. Propliopithecus
2. Ramapithecus
3. Sinanthropus
4. Propliopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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:

1. Dryopithecus
2. Shivalipithecus
3. Propliopithecus
4. Pliopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

First probable fossil man was:

1. Australopithecus
2. Pithecanthropus
3. Ramapithecus
4. Homo habilis

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Zoological name of man is:

1. Homo habilis
2. Homo erectus erectus
3. Home sapiens sapiens
4. Homo sapiens futuris

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Homo erectus erectus is scientific name of:

1. Java man
2. Peking man
3. African man
4. Java and Peking man

✅ Correct Answer: 1

With which of the following fossils first evidence of burial of dead have been found:

1. Java man
2. Cro-Magnon
3. Homo heidelbergensis
4. Peking man

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which of the following continent most of the fossils of primitive man have been excavated:

1. Africa
2. Asia
3. America
4. Australia

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following ancestors of man first stood erect:

1. Java Ape-man
2. Australopithecus
3. Peking man
4. Cro-magnon

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Old World Monkeys apes and man had certain similarities which are:

1. Reduced tail with non-prehensile nature
2. Pronated palms
3. Menstrual cycle
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Great apes and Man have which of the following similarities:

1. Absence of tail
2. Browridges
3. Increased cranial capacity
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Cro-Magnon was:

1. Vegetarian
2. Frugivorous
3. Carnivorous
4. Omnivorous

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Chief character of man having importance in the direction of evolutionary line was:

1. Large cranial capacity
2. Logical speech
3. Downwardly directed foramen magnum
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which primitive man was using tools:

1. Sinanthropus
2. Pithecanthropus
3. Australopithecus
4. Ramaplihecus

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Scientific names of Java man and modern man respectively are:

1. Home erectus erectus and homo sapiens sapiens
2. Homo spiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens futuris
3. Homo sapiens heiderbergensis and Homo sapiens fossilis
4. Homo erectus pekinensis and Home erectus mauritancus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Burial dead bodies was found in:

1. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
2. Homo erectus pekinensis
3. Homo spiens fossilis
4. Homo erectus erectus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of these is Cro-Magnon:

1. Homo erectus erectus
2. Homo sapiens fossilis
3. Homo sapiens futuris
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Difference in Homo erectus and Cro-Magnon was in the:

1. Cranial capacity
2. Intelligence
3. Shape of jaw
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which is true for Homo sapiens sapiens:

1. Cranial capacity 1450cc
2. Protruded mouth
3. Carnivorous diet
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Skull of pithecanthropus erectus was discovered in:

1. India
2. China
3. Java
4. Africa

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Closest relative of modern man is:

1. Gibbon
2. Orang utan
3. Gorilla
4. Sinanthropus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Neanderthal - Man existed during:

1. Pleistocene
2. Pliocene
3. Miocene
4. Oligocene

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Ramapithecus is name of fossil man of:

1. Shivalik hill of India
2. Java
3. Africa
4. China

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Fossil of Pithecanthropus were found in:

1. Java
2. China
3. Africa
4. Germany

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Old World Monkeys apes and man had certain similarities which are:

1. Reduced tail with non-prehensile nature
2. Pronated palms
3. Menstrual cycle
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4