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All of the Following Are True About the Recent Discovery

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All of the following are true about the recent discovery of the world's oldest child, dubbed Lucy's baby, EXCEPT that


A) she is a member of Australopithecus afarensis, a species many anthropologists consider ancestral to humans.
B) the 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in northern Ethiopia.
C) her remains, which are amazingly complete, include a remarkably well-preserved skull, milk teeth, tiny fingers, a torso, a foot, and a kneecap no bigger than a dried pea.
D) the fossil suggests that the child died because her brain, which appears to have been larger than an average chimp brain at that age, was too large for her slowly developing skull.
E) the fossil supports the theory that A.afarensiswalked upright on two legs but still retained an apelike upper body, including two complete shoulder blades similar to a gorilla's, so it could have been better at climbing than are humans.

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