Multiple choice

On which of the following continents maximum fossils of prehistoric man have been recovered?

  1. Europe

  2. Asia

  3. America

  4. Africa
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Explanation

The fossils of prehuman and ancestral human forms are obtained form widely diverse regions of Africa, Asia and Europe, which indicates that man's center of origin was probably in Asia and Africa. More precisely man has originated in central Asia because the number of domesticated animals and plants is maximum in Asia and the oldest known fossils have been obtained from Asia, China, Java and India. Climatic conditions in Asia and nearby places were most conducive for human evolution. 

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