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Archive Home > 2009 > October > 02 > Skeleton takes humankind back another 1 million years

Skeleton takes humankind back another 1 million years

Ardi, found in Africa, predates Lucy and shows early evolutionary steps

By John Noble Wilford / The Bulletin
October 2, 2009

Lucy, meet Ardi.

Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is the newest fossil skeleton out of Africa to take its place in the gallery of human origins. At an age of 4.4 million years, it lived well before and was much more primitive than the famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy, of the species....

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