Darwin judged the fitness of an individual by
ability to defend itself
strategy to obtain food
number of offsprings
dominance over other individuals
Mutation is more common when it is present in
recessive condition
dominant condition
constant in population
none of these
The useless change for man in the course of evolution, is
loss of tail
development of cranial capacity
development of being erect
development of opposable thumb
Who wrote the famous book Origin of Species?
Lamarck
Darwin
de Vries
Mendel
The fossil of Oreopithecus were found in
Japan
India
Italy
China
Darwin was influenced by reading the theory of
Lyell
Malthus
Wallace
Herbert Spencer
The human evolution is studied under
geneology
palaeontalogy
anthropology
taxonomy
Lamarckism cannot explain
webbed toes in aquatic birds
weak muscles in the son of a wrestler
long narrow and limbless body of snakes
heterophylly
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
First hominids are
Sivapithecus
Australopithecus
Pithecanthropus
Dryopithecus
