Which of the following variations are temporary and have nothing to do with the last or next generation?
Hereditary variations
Discontinuous variations
Environmental variations
None of these
Darwin judged the fitness of an individual by
ability to defend itself
strategy to obtain food
number of offsprings
dominance over other individuals
Darwin's finches are a good example of
industrial melanism
connecting link
adaptive radiation
convergent evolution
Which one of the following in birds indicates their reptilian ancestry?
Scales on their hindlimbs
Four- chambered heart
Two special chambers crop and gizzards in their digestive tract
Egg with a calcareous shell
Name given to the fossil hominid of Shivalik Hills in India is
Sinanthropus
Ramapithecus
Australopithecus
Pithecanthropus
The most recent evolution in human is
neolithic
mesolithic
palaeolithic
coenolithic
What is meant by the term "Darwin fitness"
The ability to survive and reproduce
High aggressiveness
Healthy appearance
Physical strength
Who wrote the famous book Origin of Species?
Lamarck
Darwin
de Vries
Mendel
The human evolution is studied under
geneology
palaeontalogy
anthropology
taxonomy
The age of the fossil of Dryopithecus on geological time scale is
75 x 106 years back
25 x 106 years back
2.5 x 106 years back
50 x 106 years back
