Posted: Feb 26, 2010 2:57 pm
by CJ
Ardipithecus Ramidus

All things Ardi

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Discovering Ardi website

Timeline and skeleton at National Geographic

Ardipithecus Ramidus - An Ancient Human Ancestor Surprise - Images and links to the dig site

First of 10 videos "Discovering Ardi"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ek0pnUB5E0[/youtube]

Full playlist at YouTube

A round table discussion about Ardi

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHdprG-Zxps[/youtube]

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38OVR8v667E][/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l99FFfr2gg[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFtpsh2mEog[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpBtGARhUw[/youtube]

Ardipithecus (Article: 'Did apes descend from us?')

Ardipithecus FAQ
Today is Ardipithecus day. Eleven papers in tomorrow’s issue of Science describe the research on one exceptional skeleton (numbered ARA-VP-6/500, nicknamed “Ardi”) as well as more than thirty other individuals, mostly represented by isolated teeth with a few partial sets of teeth.

Ethiopian desert yields oldest hominid skeleton
BERKELEY — Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct. 1) announced their reconstruction of a partial skeleton of the hominid, Ardipithecus ramidus, which they say revolutionizes our understanding of the earliest phase of human evolution.