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Q.

Which of the following is the most distant relative of human being?

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a

Australopithecus

b

Cro-Magnon man

c

Dryopithecus

d

Neanderthal man 

answer is C.

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Dryopithecus is the most distant relative of human beings among the options given. Dryopithecus is an extinct genus great apes that lived during Miocene. From apes, ape men (Australopithecus) evolved. True men (genus Homo)evolved from ape men. Neanderthal man who lived about 1,00,000 to 40,000 years ago is more recent than Australopithecus. Cro-Magnon man (Homo sapiens fossilis) is the immediate direct ancestor of living modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens). 

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