Which of the following statements about Ardipithecus kadabba is FALSE?
A) The kadabba find consists of eleven specimens, including a jaw bone with teeth, hand and foot bones, fragments of arm bones, and a piece of collarbone.
B) It lived during the late Miocene, between 5.8 and 5.5 million years ago.
C) It is recognized as the earliest known hominin, with the Toumai find from Chad, dated to 7-6 m.y.a., and Orrorin tugenensis from Kenya, dated to 6 m.y.a., as possibly even older hominins.
D) Its fossils belong to individuals that were apelike in size, anatomy, and habitat.
E) Its bipedalism is still questioned because none of the fossil bones found was a pelvis or a femur.
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