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 — ...

A 4.4-million-year-old female skeleton named Ardi is revealing exactly how ancient humans transitioned from climbing to walking on two legs. She belongs to the species Ardipithecus ramidus and is a ...

NEW YORK -- Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of ...

One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. "Ardi" was an ...

-- Special CBS News-Produced Roundtable Discussion Airs at 11 PM (ET/PT) -- Silver Spring, Md. - Following today’s publication in the journal Science on the find and study of a 4.4 million-year-old ...

Sileshi Semaw from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is coauthor of a paper published in the Journal of Human Evolution about a large series of fossil ...

Researchers knew that evolution gave humans a host of features. One of these features comes into the spotlight in the journal Communications Biology. The feature in question is walking upright or ...

KNOXVILLE — One of the most controversial proposed members of the human evolutionary family, considered an ancient ape by some skeptical scientists, is the real hominid deal, an analysis of a newly ...

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Discover how Ardipithecus ramidus shifts our understanding of human evolution and the surprising traits of this ancient hominid. Ardi provides clues to what the last common ancestor shared by humans ...