Question

The recent ancestor of modern man is
A. Java ape man and Peking man
B. Peking man and Rhodesian man
C. Rhodesian man and Cro-Magnon man
D. Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthal man

Answer 1

We have to know that the evolutionary journey to modern humans ends with the appearance, about five hundred thousand years ago, of Homo sapiens (“wise man”), our own species. All the human species originates from one Homosapiens ancestor in Africa.

Complete answer:
Let’s first study about all the options given in question.
Now we discuss about the pithecanthropus pekinensis as,
Pithecanthropus (Sinanthropus) pekinensis - Peking man: Remains of a skull and parts of Pithecanthropus (Sinanthropus) pekinensis, a jaw and several limb bones, recovered from a Middle Pleistocene cave in Choukoutien (southwest of Beijing) in 1943. The following characteristics are shown: Small skull and brain with a volume of 850-1300 cubic meters. The skull is low-curved. Strong brow protrusion. Language skills. Various quartz and other rock devices have been found. The stove features the use of fire.
Now we can discuss about the Neanderthal man as,
Neanderthal man -The remains of Homo Neanderthalensis have been found in a total of over 100 individuals, ranging from the late Pleistocene (before or during the early ice age) in Spain and North Africa to Ethiopia and Mesopotamia. South of Russia, Gibraltar, Valley of the Neanderthals near Dusseldorf (Germany) (from 1848 to 1861). The Neanderthals had a large flat skull. The forehead is suspended. Severe anterior ridge. A wide nose. The orbit is large. The average brain volume is 1450 centimetre cube. The chin is protruding, but the chin is smaller with large teeth. The back of the skull and the attachment point of the cervical spine indicate the presence of strong neck muscles. The limbs are heavy and slightly bent. The men were about 5 feet 3-5 inches tall. Women are shorter than men. Neanderthals lived in caves and stone shelters with stone benches and weapons.
In the case of Cro- Magnon man, the remains of Homosapiens fossillis man who lived between 30,000 and 13,000 BC have been found in the Late Pleistocene (last and late Ice Age) from French bases to Czechoslovakia, East Africa and East Asia. Its features are as follows: The skull is long and tall, without eyebrows. They look like modern people. The occipital part of the skull is round. Well developed jaw. The average brain volume is approximately 1590 centimetre cube. The men were about 5 feet 10 inches tall. They live in caves. They have stone tools, they can make frescoes and sculptures.
Rhodesian (Homo rhodesiensis): The remains of a Rhodesian man were found at Broken Hill, Rhodesia (South Africa) in 1921. A similar skull was discovered in Cape Town in 1953. Ash contains - the skull, upper jaw, bones of the limbs, pelvis, sacrum, etc. The volume of the brain is about 1300 cubic meters. Facial features, ribs, eyebrows, ducts, palate and leg .They are very similar to modern humans.
From the above points it’s clear that the properties of Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthal man is more close to modern man
So, the correct answer is “Option D”.

Note:
We have to remember that after the discovery of the "lost link" between apes and humans by the Dutch anatomist E. Dubois in 1894, a large number of human fossils came into the spotlight. All new and old findings are interpreted differently by different authorities. Scientists in the past have described fossils as "separate types" rather than "populations." They gave their new discoveries a scientific name and put them in separate forms and, if necessary, in separate genera. However, modern anthropologists and zoologists have gone to great lengths to reject nearly all of the "genera" names that have been found in the past. The two or three related species over the past 600,000 years comprise a single species that shares a gene pool with a number of offspring.