Ardipithecus

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• If Ardipithecus is the ancestor of Australopithecus, Ardi had the foot of a tree-dweller, not a knuckle-walker.

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• Ardipithecus had small canine teeth that resemble a human's more closely than a chimpanzee's.

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• The teeth of a male Ardipithecus, on the other hand, were small and dull and would not have provided any social signals, like humans.

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• And, most critically, was Ardipithecus a direct ancestor of modern humans?

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• Jungers believes that Ardipithecus was capable of walking on two legs, but was better adapted to living in trees.

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• If a male Ardipithecus lacked the teeth to fight for mating privileges, he must have had a different method of attracting mates.

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• Ultimately, the team discovered pieces of 35 Ardipithecus individuals scattered across roughly four miles of ancient landscape near an Afar village named Aramis.

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• Why Ardipithecus lost its long, sharp canines is a matter of debate, but Lovejoy does not believe it has to do with a change in diet.

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• Tim White at the University of California, Berkeley, has recovered the highly fragmented remains of a 4.4-million-year-old adult Ardipithecus ramidus from a site near the areas where Lucy and Selam were found.

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• The skeleton of Ardipithecus provides valuable insights into early human evolution.

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