Well preserved 3.6-million-year-old footprints of 1.3-meter tall,small-brained __________ were discovered in African volcanic ash.

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The sentence mentions that the footprints belonged to small-brained beings that lived 3.6 million years ago, which matches the anatomical characteristics of Australopithecines. Option A) apes cannot be the answer since the sentence implies that the footprints belonged to hominids, which are bipedal. Option B) Homo sapiens cannot be the answer either since they evolved later in the human lineage. Option C) Neanderthals evolved much later than 3.6 million years ago and did not live in Africa. Option E) archaeologists are human researchers and cannot be mistaken for hominid footprints.

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