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Ardi" Humanity's Oldest Ancestor
----------------------------------------The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor. This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University. Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor - but each evolved and changed separately along the way. "This is not that common ancestor, but it's the closest we have ever been able to come," said Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The lines that evolved into modern humans and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6 million to 7 million years ago, White said in a telephone interview....  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 4, 2009 2:08:34 PM] |
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Wow! Long forearms, fully supinating, and prehensile feet with separate greater metatarsals,
----------------------------------------...and that narrow pelvis suggests multiple pregnancies with small babies. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 3, 2009 5:35:56 PM] |
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Yes ..
More on this Ancient Skeleton May Rewrite Earliest Chapter of Human Evolution Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found--Disproves "Missing Link Move over, Lucy. And kiss the missing link goodbye. |
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P.T.Barnum - look out - your bearded lady has escaped !
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Harold please stop , tks
The 4-foot (1.2 meter) tall creature is a million years older than "Lucy" -- the skeleton of another species called Australopithecus afarensis Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago. A. afarensis was slenderly built, like the younger younger Australopithecus africanus It is thought that A. afarensis was ancestral to both the genus Australopithecus and the genus |
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Four-winged dino discovery ends debate
The remains of a ‘four-winged’ dinosaur in China has resolved the ‘temporal paradox’ in palaeontology, confirming that birds owe their ancestry to two-footed dinosaurs. Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing is staking the claim thanks to a well preserved fossil of a bird-like dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi. Until now, A. huxleyi was thought to be a primitive bird. It was presumed to have been a near-contemporary of Archaeopteryx, the first recognised bird, which lived around 150 million years ago.  |
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Bluehenge unearthed: Prehistoric site that co...ircle's little sister
Archaeologists have discovered Stonehenge's little sister - just a mile from the famous monument. The prehistoric circle, unearthed in secret over the summer, is one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades.... |
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Remains of Britain's 'First' dino...ntiquus - to be unearthed
THE remains of Britain's oldest known dinosaur are to be excavated almost 40 years after they were first discovered, a team of researchers announced yesterday Bones of the Thecondontosaurus antiquus – ancient socket-toothed dinosaur –were entombed 210 million years ago, making them among the oldest found in the world. Rock discovered near Bristol at Tytherington Quarry in South Gloucestershire in the 1970s contain the fossilised remains of the creature, which was about 2.6 metres long when fully grown..... |
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Oldest American artefact unearthed
Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years. The tool shows that people were living in North America well before the widespread Clovis culture of 12,900 to 12,400 years ago, says archaeologist Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon in Eugene.. |
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Ancient Egyptians 'had heart disease'
Egyptians living 3,500 years ago had signs of heart disease proving that the condition is not a phenomenon on the modern age, a conference has been told. Scans taken of Egyptian mummies shows they had furring of the arteries when they died, experts said. A build-up of fat and calcium in the blood vessels causes heart attacks and strokes and has been associated with the modern high fat diet and lack of exercise. |
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