Researchers know Ardipithecus

A. is a New World monkey.
B. was merely a male Australopithecus anamensis.
C. was a bipedal hominin with very apelike characteristics.
D. is ancestral to Neandertals but not to Homo sapiens.
E. was a knuckle-walking proto-chimpanzee.


Answer: C

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