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- noun An early
hominid , Ardipithecus ramidus, from thePliocene
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It would be easier to get the right response from Ardipithecus ramidus than from dear Sarah.
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A series 2009 studies in Science reported on the 4.4-million-year-old fossil of "Ardi," of the extinct Ardipithecus ramidus primate species that carried human traits.
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A series 2009 studies in Science reported on the 4.4-million-year-old fossil of "Ardi," of the extinct Ardipithecus ramidus primate species that carried human traits.
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As Matt Young pointed out recently, the fifteen year wait for the complete publication of the Ardipithecus ramidus skeletal material discovered by Tim White, and his research group, is over.
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Continue reading “Ardipithecus ramidus: The Geological, Environmental, and Taphonomic Background”.
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It turned out to be a hand bone, the first piece of a partial skeleton of a female Ardipithecus ramidus (nicknamed Ardi).
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Ardipithecus ramidus -- 'Ardi' for short - lived more than 1 million years before the previous oldest hominid fossil, a 3. 2-million-year-old Australopithecine named 'Lucy'.
eSarcasm: Up Close and Personal With Ardi, World's Oldest Human Ancestor 2010
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I examine these first because they provide strong evidence to back up some of the behavioral interpretations of Ardipithecus ramidus.
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Ardipithecus ramidus -- 'Ardi' for short - lived more than 1 million years before the previous oldest hominid fossil, a 3. 2-million-year-old Australopithecine named 'Lucy'.
Up Close and Personal With Ardi, World's Oldest Human Ancestor 2010
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I will discuss the morphology of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications in a second post.
chained_bear commented on the word ramidus
"An early hominid known from fossil Pliocene remains found in Ethiopia.
At the time of its discovery, Australopithecus ramidus (later renamed Ardipithecus ramidus) was the oldest known species of the hominid lineage after its divergence from apes." (OED)
September 15, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word ramidus
From the Afar ramid "root".
September 15, 2008