Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found
Posted Thu, 10/01/2009 - 20:28 by AP Top News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor....See original: Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found
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