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The direct ancestor of the living modern man is

  • Homo erechis

  • Homo neanderthalensis

  • Homo sapiens fossils

  • Homo sapiens sapiens

Solution

C.

Homo sapiens fossils

The direct ancestor of living modern man is Cro- magnon man or Homo sapiens fossils. It is so called, because its fossils were discovered in 1868 from Cro-Magnon rocks of trance by Mac Gregor. They emerged around 34000 years ago in Holocene epoch and are regarded as the most recent ancestor's of modern man.

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