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 ...

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 ...

This release is available in Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese and Amharic. In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ...

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team ...

Discover the significance of Ardipithecus ramidus, a pivotal early hominid revealing insights into our ancestors’ evolution. C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University spearheaded the studies on how ...

最古の人類はどのような姿をしていたのか。この問いに迫る最適な証拠がこのたび得られた。アルディピテクス・ラミドゥス（Ardipithecus ramidus）のほぼ全身にわたる骨格が見つかったのである。“アルディ”と名付けられたこの骨格の持ち主は生存時、身長 ...

Ardipithecus ramidus, a four million year old ancestor of humans, was so important that it was declared the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2009. That might still ...