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Ardipithecus Ramidus
The Ardipithecus Ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi," is the oldest pre-human species found to date. Scientists have just announced what information has been gathered about the species, and predict Ardi lived about 4.4 million years ago. About 30... [more]
The Ardipithecus Ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi," is the oldest pre-human species found to date. Scientists have just announced what information has been gathered about the species, and predict Ardi lived about 4.4 million years ago. About 30 skeletons were found in Ethiopia, the tallest was believed to be a 4 foot tall female. It is said that the Ardi are the closest species that have been found to something related to both apes and humans.
Ardipithecus ramidus, or "Ardi," receives the top honor as the Breakthrough of the Year, named by Science and its publisher, AAAS, the world's largest science society. The Dec.
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- Ardipithecus Ramidus and the Evolution of Hominids (associatedcontent.com)
- Discovering Ardi. (news.google.com)
- Regarding Ardi, Lucy & Selam: Interview with Zeresenay Alemseged (news.google.com)
Image Caption: Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, Kent State University professor of anthropology, stands next to the reconstructed skeleton of "Lucy," a near-complete fossil of a human ancestor that walked upright more than three million years ago. In October 2009, a team of researchers including Lovejoy unveiled research findings of a skeleton older than "Lucy," nicknamed "Ardi." "Ardi" has been named the Breakthrough of the Year. Credit: Photo courtesy...
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- Lucy, Ardi what's next? (kentnewsnet.com)
For such a petite creature, the 1.2-meter-tall " Ardi " ( Ardipithecus ramidus ) has made big waves in the paleoanthropology world. The momentous find--announced 15 years ago and formally described in Science this October--has deepened academic debates about when bipedalism evolved, what our last common ancestor with chimpanzees looked like, and how some ancient primates gave way to modern humans. [More]
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Three weeks ago, with much fanfare, a team of scientists unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who lived and died 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. According to her discoverers, Ardi - short for Ardipithecus ramidus, her species - is our oldest known ancestor. She predated Lucy, the fossilized Australopithecus afarensis that previously had claimed the title, by 1.2 million years.
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Media dedicated to science-related news have devoted considerable space of late to Ardi, a new fossil discovered in Ethiopia. It's the partial skeleton of a female from the awkward-sounding species Ardipithecus ramidus. Let's try for some perspective ...
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Ardipithecus Ramidus is an early hominid (or hominin, as the researchers prefer) species that is tantalizingly close to the human/chimpanzee split. "Ardi" is the nickname given to a remarkably complete 4.4 million-years-old fossil skeleton of a female Ardipithecus found in the Afar Rift region of northeastern Ethiopia, the same region that has yielded so many other remarkable fossils.
From thecurrentonline.com
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- Digging up the truth on Ardi (mcgilldaily.com)
- Discovering Ardi (scienceblogs.com)
- Archaeologists finally have a breakthrough (retrieverweekly.com)
You'll recall (hopefully) Ardi, the Ardipithecus ramidus, an ancient human ancestor that's recently gotten a whole lot of media attention. Excellently pseudo-named blogger Zinjanthropus (actually a mild-mannered biological anthropology grad student) is doing a series of posts that take a close-up look at some of the biological quirks that make Ardi such a surprise. The first post is on Ardi's hands... The extant African apes are knuckle...
From boingboing.net
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- Ardi Not A Missing Link! (freerepublic.com)
I've been so busy with other things lately that I've forgotten to even mention the new fossil find, Ardi, or Ardipithecus ramidus. Thankfully, my pal DarkSyde already did it for me. He provides a good layman's version of how to diagnose hominid fossils in the process.
I still don't like that this find was announced with a TV special and all the hype. I don't think that's healthy for science. But at least in this case, the fossil specimen...
From scienceblogs.com
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- Discovering Ardi notes (johnhawks.net)
- IU briefs: 'Ardi' discoverer to speak Tuesday (heraldtimesonline.com)
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Ardi is finally making her debut - one that has been 17 years in the making. Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is a 4.4 million-year-old fossil skeleton whose discovery has shed new light on the progress of human evolution.
The first full analysis of the Ardi skeleton was published on Oct.
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From the-standard.org
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There are three skulls from putative "hominins" that date to 3.5 million years or earlier. Every one of these skulls is known now from extensive reconstruction or correction for distortion in the original.
By itself, the extensive reconstruction might not be a problem. But as Tim White has repeatedly shown, the specialists on these crania actively and vociferously disagree about the basic anatomy due to problems reconstructing them. White's...
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