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This Primate Was a Diurnal Quadruped with a Mixture of Money

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This primate was a diurnal quadruped with a mixture of money and ape features: its lower molars had five cusps like an ape;its skull had forward-facing eye sockets protected by a bony wall;an endocast of the cranium reveals that it had a visual cortex larger than that found in Prosimians,but the brain was smaller than that of more recent anthropoids;and it had marked sexual dimorphism and was no bigger than a modern house cat.It is a:


A) Dryopithecus.
B) Ardipithecus.
C) Homo habilis.
D) Aegyptopithecus.
E) Australopithecus afarensis.

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