It’s been 4.4 million years since a female now nicknamed Ardi lived in eastern Africa, but she still knows how to make an entrance. Analyses of her partial skeleton and the remains of at least ...

As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus ...

At first, Ardipithecus ramidus was yet another scrappy pre-Lucy ... Those of you reading this post that have a Y chromosome have canine teeth that are about the same size as those of my XX readers.

Oct. 1, 2009 — -- Scientists today told the world what they know about Ardipithecus ramidus-- "Ardi" for short ... and that her teeth resemble modern human teeth more closely than they ...

ramidus remains, including 42 lower-body fossils, two jaw fragments and a large number of isolated teeth. Several leg ... a more than 4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus individual at Ethiopia ...

Analysis of the fossil Ardipithecus ramidus, one of the earliest known ... and her jaws weren’t as massive. Ardi’s teeth, shown here in between a human’s (left) and a chimp’s (right ...

Through analyzing Ardi’s teeth, pelvic bones ... papers and further summaries contributed to the study of Ardipithecus ramidus and its environment. The primary authors include Tim White of ...

The A. ramidus canines didn’t clearly fall into two distinct groups, so the team developed a statistical technique for analysing subtle variations to distinguish male and female teeth.

The fossils - fragments of teeth, jaw, hands and feet - all belong to the same species - A. ramidus (Ardipithecus ramidus) - first discovered about a decade ago. A. ramidus is thought to be the ...

Motivation from the study had originally come from the unique success of both teams in recovering fossils from ancient time horizons, their most celebrated discoveries being the ~4.5-million-year-old ...