Question

Modern Homo sapiens arose during the ice age between the time frame
(a) 100000-40000 years back
(b) 2-3 million years back
(c) 75000-10000 years ago
(d) 3-4 million years ago

Answer 1

The modern humans that exist on the Earth weren't the same millions or billions of years ago. They went through several stages and finally reached what we call modern Homo sapiens.

Complete answer:
Modern Homo sapiens arose during the ice age between the time frame of 75000 - 10000 years ago. The evolution of humans started around 200000 years ago and it’s possible that they are descendants of Homo heidelbergensis. The first fossil was found in southwestern France in 1868 which is considered to be 27000-23000 years old.

Additional Information: All people that exist in the current time are classified as Homo sapiens. However, they evolved morphologically and anatomically a lot from what they were before. The first species began to evolve nearly 200000 years ago and probably was descendent of Homo heidelbergensis. They were different from the Neanderthals but were contemporaries. Unlike Neanderthals, they have a more delicate structured skeleton in which skulls are more rounded and brow ridge less protrude. They didn't have occipital buns on the back of the skull-like Neanderthals and have a high forehead, small face, and pointed chin.
The first-ever fossil of early modern Homo sapiens was found in Southwest France which were probably 27000 to 23000 years old. They were named Cro-magnon. It is said that modern humans evolved from archaic humans in East Africa.
Therefore, the correct answer is “(c) 75000-10000 years ago”.

Note: The Ice age was the time when the reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere occurred which resulted in the appearance of continental and polar ice sheets and glaciers. Modern humans evolved after the ice age. The studies say that the ice age happened a number of times and the longest of them was the one that took place in the proterozoic era.