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HTTP:: 4 4 Million Year Old Hominid Fossil Found
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A newly discovered hominid fossil, found in Ethiopia, Africa, demonstrates that humans did not evolve from knuckle-walking chimpanzees, as anthropologists widely believe. Apparently, our species evolved along a separate lineage from a common ancestor that we shared with a species of great apes that has long since been extinct, scientists say. The new, fossilized remains, named Ardi, belong to a woman that lived more than 4.4 million years ago. The skeleton was found in amazing condition, and nearly all the bones were recovered, Nature News reports. The last common ancestor between humans and primates is believed to have lived more than six million years ago, and experts say that this makes Ardi the oldest known hominid fossil on the planet. Previously, this “record” was held by the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton that is popularly known as Lucy. Ardi has been named Ardipithecus ramidus. “This spectacular specimen shows why fossils really mat!
ter,” the Head of the Anthropology Department at the Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, Andrew Hill, argues. Ardi was capable of walking upright, as modern humans are, but still retained a big toe similar to the one found in primates, meaning it could still grasp a tree fairly easily, for example. Also, early evid...
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