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Stanley Ambrose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caption: Carbon isotope analyses conducted by University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose indicated that Ardipithecus ramidus was a woodland creature whose diet resembled those of modern baboons and chimpanzees.

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau

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