Question

Name the ancestors of man based on the features given below: (i) Human like, meat-eater with 900 cc brain, lived in Java. (ii) More human with brain size 1400 cc, lived in central Asia, used hides and buried their dead. (iii) Human like, vegetarian, with brain capacity between 650 cc and 800 cc.

Answer 1

a, Javaman. b, Neanderthal man

Answer 2

Answer:

i) Homo Erectus

ii) Neandertal man

iii) Homo Habbilis

Explanation:

The ancestors of man based on the given features are from the ancient history when the evolution started beginning.

The Homo Erectus is a species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.8 million years ago.

The Neanderthals are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo, who lived within Eurasia from circa 400,000 until 40,000 years ago.

Homo habilis is a proposed archaic species of Homo, which lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene geological epoch.