Question

The gradual appearance of human from ape-ancestor took about ......... million years.

• A. 30
• B. 23
• C. 41
• D. 10

Answer 1

The correct option is D 10

The gradual appearance of human from ape-ancestor took about 10 million years.

Human and gorilla ancestors split 10 million years ago in Africa.

The complex evolutionary pattern

55 million years ago - First primitive primates evolve

15 million years ago - Hominidae (great apes) evolve from the ancestors of the gibbon

8 million years ago - First gorillas evolve. Later, chimp and human lineages diverge

5.5 million years ago - Ardipithecus, early ‘proto-human’ shares traits with chimps and gorillas

4 million years ago - Australopithecines appeared. They had brains no larger than a chimpanzee's

2.8 million years ago - LD 350-1 appeared and may be the first of the Homo family

2.7 million years ago - Paranthropus, lived in woods and had massive jaws for chewing

2.3 million years ago - Homo habalis first thought to have appeared in Africa

1.8 million years ago - Homo ergaster begins to appear in fossil record

1.6 million years ago - Hand axes become the first major technological innovation

800,000 years ago - Early humans control fire and create hearths. Brain size increases rapidly

400,000 years ago - Neanderthals first begin to appear and spread across Europe and Asia

200,000 years ago - Homo sapiens - modern humans - appear in Africa

40,0000 years ago - Modern humans reach Europe.

So, the correct answer is option D.