Question

Name of the fossil man of Shivalik hills.
A. Australopithecus
B. Dryopithecus
C. Kenyapithecus
D. Ramapithecus

Answer 1

Hint: Man is the most successful and dominating animal on the planet earth. He developed the skill of language and several developments in the world are the result of his thoughts and experiments. Man is the only organism on the earth who himself collected evidence of his origin and evolution.

Complete answer:
Human evolution is generally studied with the evolution of apes as they are more closely related to man than other animals. In human evolution, we especially study:
The origin and evolution of man can be studied in the following three major headings: A. Before Ape Men B. Ape Men including Prehistoric men and C. True Men including the Living Modern Man.
Now let us gather information about the given options:
Australopithecus:- The early human stock gave rise to Australopithecus. It is intermediate between apes and man. Raymond Dart (1924), a South African anthropologist, discovered and found the fossil of Australopithecus africanus (African Ape-man) from Pliocene rocks near Tuang in Africa.
Dryopithecus:- The fossil of Dryopithecus Africanus was discovered from Miocene rocks of Africa and Europe. It lived about 15 million years ago. Dryopithecus was hairy and walked like gorillas and chimpanzees
Kenyapithecus:- it is also called Proconsul Africanus or D. Africanus was discovered by Louis S.B. Leakey in 1948 from the rocks around lake Victoria of Kenya, Africa. It lived in the early Miocene epoch. It was similar between apes and man in many features so show some morphological features
Ramapithecus:- It has been established that in the late Miocene epoch, Dryopithecus gave rise to Ramapithecus (Rama' = The hero of Indian legend, Pithecus = Ape) which was on the direct line of human evolution. Ramapithecus survived from the late Miocene to Pliocene. Thus, he appeared about 14-15 million years ago. Fossil of Ramapithecus was discovered by Edward Lewis (1932) from Pliocene rocks of Shivalik Hills of India.

So, our required option is D. Ramapithecus.

Note:
The evolutionary journey to modern humans ends with the appearance, about five hundred thousand years ago.cf Homo sapiens ("Wise man"), our species. We are newcomers to the human family-H. sapiens has not been around nearly as long as H. Erectus was. Still, humans have changed quite a bit, since those first days.