All of the following about Ardipithecus kadabba are true EXCEPT that
A) 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.
B) the kadabba find consists of 11 specimens, including a jaw bone with teeth, hand and foot bones, fragments of arm bones, and a piece of collarbone.
C) its bipedalism is still questioned because none of the fossil bones found was a pelvis or a femur.
D) it lived during the late Miocene, between 5.8 and 5.5 million years ago.
E) its fossils belong to individuals that were apelike in size, anatomy, and habitat.
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