... began bipedal walking in earnest. From the article:What makes Ardipithecus singular is the skeleton: To anatomists, Ardi is not a mere point ... , stable period in the early Pliocene environment. The Ardipithecus form might account for the bulk of the whole story of human ... those materials found at their site: Online Extras: Ardipithecus ramidus. There is also an informative summary video to be found ...

Science magazine dedicates its pages to 11 papers that present a detailed analysis on and introduction of our 4.4 million year old ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, authored by a diverse international team.   “These 4.4 million year old hominid fossils sit within a critical early part of human evolution, and cast new and sometimes surprising light on the

... sex in a relatively homogeneous population, can easily be of this magnitude (on a percentage basis). Ardipithecus ramidus, with its small cranial capacity and mix of primitive and derived traits, ... years in time, the cranial capacity of the Hobbit is only slightly larger than that of Ardipithecus ramidus. If the Hobbit were an ape, this would not be such a big deal: chimpanzee and gorilla brain ...

... savannas as prior generations of researchers had speculated. The discovery of the specimen called Ardipithecus ramidus "is one of the most important discoveries for the study of human ... among males for females in heat that characterizes gorillas and chimpanzees was absent in Ardipithecus. That implies, Lovejoy concluded, that the males were beginning to enter into monogamous relationships ...

... and from Ed Yong. A Primate of Modern Aspect has a post on The third trochanter and gluteus maximus of Ardipithecus and what they tell us about locomotion. Sadly, Eric Michael Johnson comes along to put poor Ardi in her place, with Breaking the Chain: Ardipithecus is not a Missing Link. Finally, Ad Hominin zeros in on the fascination with the forehead and ...

Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie, one of the discoverers of Ardipithecus ramidus, will be giving a talk in Bloomington next week. He will be speaking on Tuesday, December 1, at 4:00 PM in Whittenberger Auditorium at IU Bloomington on “Ardi: Discovering and Interpreting Ardipithecus.” Ardi has been getting a lot of attention lately after 11 articles on