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Thick skull, cranial capacity about 1075 c.c., low fore head, absence of chin and large canine were present in

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Java man
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Peking man
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Homo habilis
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Australopithecus
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The correct option is B Peking man
Java man had cranial capacity of 775 - 900 c.c.
Peking man had cranial capacity of 915 - 1225 c.c.
Homo habilis had cranial capacity of 680 - 775 c.c.
Australopithecus had cranial capacity of 400 - 600 c.c.
The other characteristics listed in the question are true for Peking man. Some of the other features of Peking man, discovered from a cave near Beijing, were weakly built, omnivorous, cannibal, used fire and made sophisticated tools from bone, stone and quartz.

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