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Written by Ann Gibbons, ScienceNOW Daily News   
Thursday, 01 October 2009 15:44

Washington, DC- Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor--and it is full of surprises.

Although the creature, named Ardipithecus ramidus, had a brain and body the size of a chimpanzee, it did not knuckle-walk or swing through the trees like an ape. Instead, "Ardi" walked upright, with a big, stiff foot and short, wide pelvis, researchers report in Science. "We thought Lucy was the find of the century," says paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill of Yale University, referring to the famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton that revolutionized thinking about human origins. "But in retrospect, it was not." Read more

Source: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1001/1

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