Comments on: The 4.4-Million-Year-Old Ardipithecus ramidus

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:02:15 +0000

Amen

By: The Neandertal Draft Genome « Anthropology.net

The Neandertal Draft Genome « Anthropology.net — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:11:06 +0000

[...] under the sea of books and notes for my upcoming exams to immerse myself in it. This happened with Ardipithecus last fall, and now with the draft of the Neandertal genome coming out tomorrow, I can’t help [...]

By: Ginnifer Cosgrove

Ginnifer Cosgrove — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:37:28 +0000

I’m a 16 year old Junior and to be learning this at such a young age is quite simply amazing. I’m not sure that most would believe I’m only 16 but I am and this is the most amazing discovery of my generation. I one day hope to become an archaeoligist so I too can make amazing discoveries as this one. I might not find such an old or well preserved specimen as this but it’d be cool to be recognized as someone important so that when I do find cool stuff I’d be invited to do digs this important to human history. I want to leave my own footprints so that our future selves can find them yet again millions of years from now.

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squareONE explorations » Blog Archiv » I Love Ardi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:54:06 +0000

[...] Ardi page * White and colleagues 2009b give a long table of “derived” characters in Ardipithecus and [...]

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Mailund on the Internet » Blog Archive » Ardi, Ardi, Ardi… — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:36:07 +0000

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By: prancingpapio

prancingpapio — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:10:59 +0000

Still lower lvl than Lucy though … must be a beta Tauren with plain striding.

Apologies to those who have no idea what I’m talking about. Brownie points to those who do.

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Science Publishes 11 Papers On Ardipithecus ramidus « Anthropology.net — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:32 +0000

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By: Kambiz

Kambiz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:21:56 +0000

Yay Ardi! Gratz on dinging! ;-)

By: prancingpapio

prancingpapio — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:31:02 +0000

It’s finally here!

By: Mike Keesey

Mike Keesey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:31:06 +0000

“changes the notion that humans and chimps, our closest genetic cousins, both trace their lineage to a creature that was more like today’s chimp ”

The ancestor would still be more chimp-like than human-like in most features. And this specimen doesn’t clear up all of the uncertainties about that ancestor, since it’s on the human side of things. We’d need a well-preserved member of the human-chimpanzee stem group to be certain about the polarity of all of these features.

“What this means is that our common ancestor was a bipedal forest forager”

*Facultatively* bipedal. This has already been suspected for a while, so it’s nice to see it confirmed.

“and that chimps were an evolutionary offshoot”

Again, we already knew this (or should have). This wonderful specimen clears up some particulars, though.