The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all. Aa ...

Box-and-whisker plot of relative tympanic length. See Fig. 2 legend for explanation. Anatomy of the tympanic/petrous relationship: Ardipithecus ramidus specimen ARA-VP 1/500, image reversed for ease ...

To appreciate the importance of this new look of Ardipithecus, you have to step back into the history of hunting for hominid fossils. In the early 1970s, Tim White was part of a research team that ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man's primal development. Because the ...

Here we present new sedimentological, palaeohydraulic and palaeosol carbonate-based isotopic evidence for such a riparian environment at Aramis 4.4 million years (Myr) ago. We focus at the site where ...

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 ...

Tomorrow the Discovery Channel will show an Ardipithecus documentary. I've embedded a couple preview clips they've been sending around. I don't have cable myself (the same way an alcoholic doesn't ...