Question

Find out the true/false statements:
(i) During the ice age between 85000 - 10000 years ago modern Homo sapiens arose.
(ii) Agriculture came around 10000 years back and human settlement started.
(iii) Homo erectus used hides to protect their body and buried their dead.
(iv) The skull of a baby chimpanzee is more like an adult human skull than an adult chimpanzee skull.
(v) Australopithecus hunted with stone weapons.

A) (i) and (iv) are false while (ii), (iii) and (v) are true.
B) (ii), (iv) and (v) are true while (i) and (iii) are false.
C) (i), (iii) and (v) are true while (ii) and (iv) are false.
D) (ii) and (iv) are true while (i), (iii) and (v) are false.

Answer 1

Hint A sentence may appear to be true at first glance because it contains facts and statements. If only one part of the sentence is incorrect, the entire sentence is incorrect. A sentence may be mostly true because it contains the correct information, but if it contains any incorrect information, it is ultimately false.

Complete answer:
The ice age between 85000 - 10000 years ago modern Homo sapiens arose, Between 75000 and 10000 years ago, modern Homo sapiens emerged during the ice age. Human evolution began around 200000 years ago, and they are thought to be descendants of Homo heidelbergensis. so, the statement is false.
Agriculture came around 10000 years back and human settlement started: When humans began to domesticate plants and animals 10,000 years ago, agricultural communities arose. Families and larger groups were able to form communities and transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle reliant on foraging and hunting for survival by establishing domesticity. . so, the statement is true.
Homo erectus used hides to protect their body and buried their dead: Neanderthal man, with a brain size of 800 million years ago, used hides to protect his body and buried his dead. so, the statement is false.
The skull of a baby chimpanzee is more like an adult human skull than an adult chimpanzee skull: The skull of a baby chimp is more similar to that of an adult human. This fact is self-evident in terms of human and chimp evolutionary paths. So, the statement is true.
Australopithecus hunted with stone weapons: Around 2 million years ago, Australopithecus was most likely living in East African grasslands. They mostly ate fruit and hunted with stone weapons. They stood about 1.5 meters tall and had a brain capacity of 500 cubic centimeters. They walked on two legs and sat up straight. So, the statement is true.
So, (ii), (iv) and (v) are true while (i) and (iii) are false.

Thus, the answer is option B: (ii), (iv), and (v) are true while (i) and (iii) are false.

Note: Over successive generations, evolution is defined as a change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. These traits are the expressions of genes that are passed down from one generation to the next during reproduction.