Ancestor of humans not so brainy

　　A monkey-like animal seen as an ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans was not as brainy（1） as expected, according to scientists who analyzed its nicely preserved 29-million-year-old skull.
　　The finding indicated that primate（2） brain enlargement evolved later than once thought, the researchers said on Monday.
　　They analyzed a remarkably well-preserved fossilized（3） skull of the little primate Aegyptopithecus（4） zeuxis, which lived in the trees and ate fruit and leaves about 29 million years ago in warm forests in what is now an Egyptian desert.
　　A technique called microcomputerized tomography（5） scanning —— a computerized X-ray method also called micro-CT —— allowed them to determine the dimensions of the animals brain.
　　"What was astonishing is how small this brain is," Duke University primatologist Elwyn Simons, who led the study in the Proceeding

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