![]() ![]() She was given the designation Ardipithecus ramidus, but she's more commonly known as "Ardi" and, although she is not a direct ancestor of humans (she's a new genus, a "hitherto-unknown hybrid of arboreal ape and terrestrial biped"), she's opened new windows into the history of human evolution. Then, in 1994, a team of paleontologists working in roughly the same area uncovered a skeleton of a hominin that predates Lucy by a million years (give or take). ![]() Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 October #1 For a long time, "Lucy," a hominid skeleton found in 1974 in the Afar region of Ethiopia, was the oldest human ancestor ever discovered. ![]()
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