Oldest hominid skeleton found, pushes back history of humankind a million years

WASHINGTON — The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.

Poll

Would you vote for Barack Obama if he contests today?
Loading ... Loading ...

Latest Tweets

Early Humans

  • rastafaritimes Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex? http://bit.ly/pFOSa
  • 3stripe Also worth a read: "Did early humans start walking for sex?" http://bit.ly/2NNd5Z #lol
  • groupY Boardistan: Early Humans Were Regular Footers http://bit.ly/Fr7I7
  • AbuQirqas Did early humans start walking for sex? http://if10.net/01c
  • southworth Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex? http://tinyurl.com/ybnj2qe isn't that why we do anything?
  • redwoodhippie http://bit.ly/2IV5g1 Early humans
  • kphipps3000 To be geek is to be human?: Bipedalism developed by canny early humans to lure females away from alpha males? http://bit.ly/19XNjN
  • JoeyB Waaay better than what I do for sex. And cheaper. @cgoeb Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex? http://tinyurl.com/ybnj2qe
  • childrens_book Ice Age: Meet Early Humans and Amazing Animals Sharing a Frozen Planet - by Stewart Ross - Barron's Educational Series. http://bit.ly/L5ruU
  • stanford_humsci Early humans descended from trees and immediately walked upright, Stanford researcher asserts in journal 'Science': //tinyurl.com/ycrymje

Latest Friend Feeds

Early Humans

  • stuckinseoul Why Early Humans Started Walking: Food and Sex
  • boardistan Early Humans Were Regular Footers
  • slayerboy The skeleton of an early human who lived 4.4 million years ago shows that humans did not evolve from chimpanzee-like ancestors, researchers reported on Thursday.
  • petrbuben The area where "Ardi" was found is rich in hominin fossil sites, including these worked by the Middle Awash research team
  • jamiuh jamiul: jamiul: Did Early Humans Start Walking For Sex: "Buried among the slew of papers about the new find [of the oldest... http://ff.im/-93qcS
  • childrensbook Ice Age: Meet Early Humans and Amazing Animals Sharing a Frozen Planet - by Stewart Ross - Barron's Educational Series. http://bit.ly/L5ruU
  • nflsports Did Early Humans Start Walking For Sex
  • jalmi Did Early Humans Start Walking For Sex: "Buried among the slew of papers about the new find [of the oldest hum.. http://bit.ly/Eo43L
  • jamiuh jamiul: Did Early Humans Start Walking For Sex: "Buried among the slew of papers about the new find [of the oldest hum.. http://bit.ly/Eo43L
  • ehead Early Humans - eLibrary.SD71 - School District #71 (Comox Valley)
  • bainsight Did apes descend from early humans, instead of the other way around http://bit.ly/adgxF
  • jackleblond Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex http://kl.am/3Aah
  • cmcarson Early hominid offers insight into evolution to humans
  • robertmichaelmurray Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex - http://bit.ly/pwliB | Discovery of the oldest human skeleton may provide insight into sex life.
  • tysonlundbech ebonilm: brettjohn: A SKULL THAT REWRITES THE HISTORY OF MAN The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind.
  • tysonlundbech A SKULL THAT REWRITES THE HISTORY OF MAN The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind.
  • mcgeneral The ventricular excitability-interval relationship in early diastole in humans the influence of the electrode configuration during bipolar stimulation
  • bruck @erez you mean early humans discovered meat that had already been cooked by someone else
  • skriv Sunday, The Link. CSI style investigation of the evolutionary "missing link" between early primates and humans.
  • mcgeneral Out of Africa and into an ice age on the role of global climate change in the late Pleistocene migration of early modern humans out of Africa
Protected by Comment Guard Pro