Question

Genus Homo was identified during ............ epoch.

• A. Eocene
• B. Palaeocene
• C. Oligocene
• D. Pleistocene

Answer 1

The correct option is D Pleistocene

The Pleistocene saw the evolution and expansion of our own species, Homo sapiens and by the close of the Pleistocene, humans had spread through most of the world. According to a controversial theory first proposed in the 1960s, human hunting around the close of the Pleistocene caused or contributed to the extinction of many of the Pleistocene large mammals. It is true that the extinction of large animals on different continents appears to correlate with the arrival of humans, but questions remain as to whether early human hunters were sufficiently numerous and technologically advanced to wipe out whole species. It has also been hypothesized that some disease wiped out species after species in the Pleistocene. The issue remains unsolved, perhaps the real cause of the Pleistocene extinction was a combination of these factors. So, genus Homo was identified in Pleistocene epoch.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.