The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all.

Discussion continues over whether Ardipithecus is a hominid or not, whether it walked on two feet or not, and what its relationship is to the 3.9?.2 million year old fossils found in 1995 by Meave ...

The first stage is best represented by Ardipithecus—"ground zero"—a primitive biped with one part of its foot in the past and one in the future, its male canines already reduced and "feminized ...

so different from anything seen before that it has been assigned to an entirely new genus as well as species name Ardipithecus ramidus. Dr White has yet to assemble and analyze the pelvis and ...

In 1994, Ardi, the skeleton of an Ardipithecus ramidus thought to be 4.4 million years old, was also found in Ethiopia, ...

The skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus belonged to a human ancestor that lived 4.4m years ago, in what is now Ethiopia’s scorched Afar Basin. Discovered by Berkeley paleoanthropologist Tim White ...

Studies such as this new one show that early human ancestors must have able been to walk upright for millions of years, since the 4.4 million year old fossil Ardipithecus ramidus, but that they ...

including Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4-million-year-old biped. My unpredictable Afar guide, Elema, is their veteran fossil hunter. Raised in a nomad culture feared for its tough warriors ...

They also looked at changes in the brain size of human ancestors such as Australopithecus and Ardipithecus. They found that extinction rates in large carnivores correlated with increased brain ...

Our canines have actually become shorter over time. Just look at the canines on the first human, Ardipithecus ramidus, or Australopithecus anamensis versus modern humans. In fact, our canines ...

ድርጅቱ በአለም ቅርሥነት በማህደሩ ከያዛቸዉ ነገሮች መካከል ከአፍሪቃ በኢትዮጵያ፣ በኬንያ፣ በሱዳን እና በሴኔጋል ያሉ ...