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Directions: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first sentences in each sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labeled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1: Palaeontology is the study of the remains of dead organisms over an enormous span of time.

S6: Faunal analysis gives information about the animals, people hunted and domesticated, the age of animals at death, and the diseases that afflicted them.

P: Bones provide a piece of great information.

Q: The distribution of faunal remains (animal bones) at a site can indicate which areas were used for butchering, cooking, eating, bone tool-making and refuse dumping.

R: Within this discipline, molecular biology and DNA studies have been used to understand hominid evolution.

S: Hominid evolution answers the questions about what ancient people looked like, and to plot patterns of migration.

The correct sequence should be:

Q, P, R, S
S, P, Q, R
R, S, P, Q
P, Q, R, S

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