Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYEvolution1 Mark
MCQ
The first human fossil probably belonged to:
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Zinjanthropus
B
Australopithecus
C
Pleisanthropus
D
Pithecanthropus
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Answer
Correct option: A.
Zinjanthropus
The first human fossil probably belonged to Zinjanthropus. It is an extinct hominin postulated from a skull found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in $1959$ and originally designated Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis $S.B.$ Leakey.
It was later renamed Paranthropus boisei. It lived in Eastern Africa during the Pleistocene epoch from about $2.3$ until about $1.2$ million years ago. The brain had a small capacity of $500-550cc.$
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