Ardipithecus

[ ahr-di-pith-i-kuhs, ‐p��-thee-kuhs ]

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noun

a genus of extinct hominine of the late Miocene and early Pliocene epochs, known from remains found in northeastern Ethiopia in the 1990s: its two named species are A. ramidus and A. kadabba .

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1990–95; from New Latin, from Afar ard, ardi “earth” (from Arabic ʔ��ḍ ) + Latin �辱�ٳ�ŧ��ܲ� “ape” (from Greek ��í�ٳ�ŧ��ǲ� )

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They found a remarkably complete but crushed partial skeleton they named Ardipithecus ramidus, dated to 4.4 million years ago.

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Nearby, Haile-Selassie later found the lower jaw, teeth, and disarticulated bones of the hands, feet, and arm of Ardipithecus kadabba, dated to 5.8 million years ago.

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One, the Burtele foot, named after the 3.4-million-year-old layer of sediment in which it was found, lived at the same time as A. afarensis but is more primitive, with an opposable big toe like that of tree-climbing Ardipithecus.

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Ardipithecus, he says, “makes Lucy and Co. downright humanlike in comparison.”

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“Clickbait,” said Tim D. White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is best known for leading the team that discovered Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old likely human forebear.

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Ardi Ardipithecus kadabba

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