Question 4: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
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Of the four kinds of apes- the gibbon, the orang-utan, gorilla and chimpanzee
the gibbon is considered to be the least like a human being and the chimpanzee or gorilla
the most. Therefore, if we could hit on a chimpanzee-like or gorilla-like fossil from the
Miocene, we presumably would have something even closer to ancestral man. Such an
animal exists. Its name is Proconsul, and it was discovered on a small island in Lake
Victoria, Kenya, in the 1930s.
The first Proconsul finds were a sensation. They were shipped to England where
their close affinity to chimpanzees were immediately recognized. Indeed the very name
Proconsul was a kind of anthropological joke, 'pro' meaning before, and consul' being
the name of an actual chimpanzee at London zoo in those days. It is, nevertheless, an apt
name.
Proconsul is either a pre-chimp or the next thing to it. As a famous geologist
Elwyn Simons puts it, it shows some monkey-like traits of hand, skull and brain, but
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