 This image released today by “Science” shows the probable life appearance in anterior view of Ardipithecus ramid (“Ardi”) |
Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man’s earliest ancestors. Analysis of a near-complete skeleton of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia changes scientists’ thinking about the appearance and behavior of our distant forebears.
A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert is dramatically overturning widely held ideas about the early evolution of humans and how they came to walk upright, even as it paints a remarkably detailed picture of early life in Africa, researchers reported Thursday.The centerpiece of the diverse collection of primate, animal and plant fossils is the near-complete skeleton of a human ancestor that demonstrates our earliest forebears looked nothing like a chimpanzee or other large primate, as is now commonly believed. Read the rest of this entry »
