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...than either those of Neanderthal or modern man?the Laetolil markings indicate a manlike primate about 1.2 meters (4 ft.) tall that probably walked with what Leakey calls "a slow, rolling gait," like a chimpanzee's. Though there were many animal tracks nearby ?including some of knuckle-walking apes???Leakey is "75% certain" that the prints were those of an early ancestor of man's. "The creature," as she calls it (because she cannot tell the sex), was not a hunter. Its plodding ways would seem to have precluded that. Says Leakey: "It probably ate anything and everything...
...branch evolved into the ancestors of today's great apes???the gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans, which are man's closest living cousins. Another produced a creature called Gigantopithecus, a huge ground ape that roamed the valleys of Asia for a few million years before it became extinct. A third branch gave rise to Ramapithecus, which most anthropologists believe was a distant ancestor...
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