Question

First hominids are

• A. Ramapithecus
• B. Kenyapithecus
• C. Both A and B
• D. Australopithecus

Answer 1

The correct option is C Both A and B

According to Leakey, Kenyapithecus and Ramapithecus were both early hominids, which indicated that the roots of the human evolutionary line is a deep one. Ramapithecus was a fossil primate genus, dating from the late Miocene or early Pliocene Epoch. The first Ramapithecus fossils (fragments of an upper jaw and some teeth) were discovered in 1932 in fossil deposits in the Siwalik Hills of northern India. Kenyapithecus wickeri was a fossil ape discovered by Louis Leakey in 1961 at a site called Fort Ternan in Kenya.

So, the correct answer is option C.