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Question
Distinguish between Australopithecus and Neanderthal man
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Solution
| 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. |
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