Volpe's Understanding Evolution 7th Edition by Peter Rosenbaum

Exercise 6

Proconsul is the name of a fossil ancestor. Where in the branching bush of primate evolution does this fossil belong?
A) It was an early Miocene hominoid with ape-like characteristics
B) It was a link between the prosimians and the anthropoids
C) It was an arboreal insectivorous ancestor at the base of the primate lineage
D) It was at the branch of the ape-human divergence
E) It was one of the first hominids