Question

Distinguish between Australopithecus and Neanderthal man

Answer 1

No.	Australopithecus	Neanderthal man
1.	They are described as the connecting link between ape and man.	They are described as advanced prehistoric men.
2.	Fossils were found in Taung, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Tanzania	Fossils of this advanced prehistoric man were collected by J.K. Fuhlrott (1856) from Neanderthal Valley, Germany.
3.	They lived during the Late Pliocene or early Pleistocene epoch about 4-1.8mya.	They existed in the late Pleistocene epoch about 100000 to 400000 years ago.
4.	They were around 4 feet in height, with large jaws, prognathous face, and lumbar curvature. Chin was however absent.	They had short prominent brow ridges, the skull bones were thick, the forehead was low and slanting, the jaw was deeper than that of a modern man with no chin. They had outwardly curved thigh bones
5.	They had a cranial capacity of 450-600cc.	Its cranial capacity was 1400 cc.