As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus — ...

Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

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‘Ardi,’ the 4.4 million-year-old skeleton recently found in Ethiopia, will completely change the story of early humans, UA anthropologists said. The fossil has been assigned to the genus Ardipithecus ...

New research gives weight to the idea that humans evolved from a species not dissimilar to an African ape. And it all comes down to the ankles. Humans stand apart - quite literally - from other ...

Hominid refers to the family of primates that includes all species on the “human ” side of the evolutionary tree after the split from chimpanzees.. Two reports on the extraordinary discovery appeared ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...