The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means "ground/floor" and ramid means "root". The pithecus portion of the name is from the Greek word for …

Nov 14, 2025 · Ardipithecus, the earliest known genus of the zoological family Hominidae (the group that includes humans and excludes great apes) and the likely ancestor of Australopithecus, a group …

Jan 3, 2024 · Over 100 specimens of Ardipithecus ramidus have been recovered in Ethiopia. Even though it has some ape-like features (as do many other early human species), it also has key human …

Some paleoanthropologists have suggested that Ardipithecus may be a better candidate for our ancestry than one or more of the australopiths. It has also been suggested that australopiths are descended …

Ardipithecus is an early hominin known from Ethiopia, Africa. This group existed from about 5.8 to 4.4 million years ago. The better-known species of that group, Ardipithecus ramidus, is dated to 4.4 …

Ardipithecus ramidus was a facultative biped and retained an opposable big toe. However, like its predecessors, its teeth were small with minimal size variation between males and females.

Meet Ardipithecus. This introduction has been a long time coming. Some 4.4 million years ago, a hominid now known as Ardipithecus ramidus lived in what were then forests in Ethiopia.

Ardipithecus ramidus was discovered by Tim White and associates in 1994 in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The partial skeleton ARA-VP-6/500 is now considered by many to be the oldest skeleton of …

Dec 18, 2009 · Her discoverers named her species Ardipithecus ramidus, from the Afar words for “root” and “ground,” to describe a ground-living ape near the root of the human family tree. Although some …

The discovery of Ardipithecus, along with Miocene apes, has reworked academic understanding of the chimpanzee–human last common ancestor. Historically, humans were thought to have evolved from …