The last common ancestor of Man and Ape was not a knuckle-walking, tree-swinging hominid resembling today's chimpanzee, said a study Tuesday challenging some long-held theories of human evolution.

Rather than a prototype chimp as commonly believed, our common forefather was an ape unlike any that exists today.

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