Question

Which primitive man resembles the modern man?
A. Peking man
B. African man
C. Java ape man
D. Cro-Magnon man

Answer 1

Hint: They were the direct ancestors of the Homo sapiens. The increasing order of resemblance is as follows; Pliopithecus, Proconsul, Dryopithecus, Oreopithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, advanced Australopithecus, Homo erectus, early Homo sapiens, Solo man, Rhodesian man, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Modern Homo sapiens.

Step by step answer:
Cro-Magnon man was the direct ancestor of the modern man (Homo sapiens) and was physically indistinguishable from modern races of humans. Cro-Magnon was a population of early Homo sapiens dating from the Upper Paleolithic Period (from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago) in Europe. Cro-Magnons were a robustly and strongly built species that were powerful and were presumed to have been about 166 to 171 cm tall. Their bodies were generally heavy and solid with apparently strong muscular and skeletal systems. Their forehead was straight with slight brow ridges, and a short and wide face.
Cro-Magnons were the first humans to have a prominent chin. Their brain capacity was about 1,600 cc (100 cubic inches), which is relatively larger than the average brain capacity for modern humans.

Hence option D is correct.

Note: Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a group of fossilized specimens of the Homo erectus. They were dated from roughly 750,000 years ago. Java Man was an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java, Indonesia. They were estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,000,000 years old. It is one of the specimens of Homo erectus. Neanderthals are an extinct species/ subspecies of archaic humans who roamed the plains of Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. They went extinct probably due to competition with or by extermination by immigrating European and early modern humans or due to great climatic change (ice-age), disease, etc.