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Ardi About-Face
August 22nd, 2010
This year, 2010, has not been a good year for the “out of Africa” evolutionary theory of human origins. The following is why.
In October 2009, Time Magazine recognized Ardipithecus ramidus, now known as “Ardi,” the number one of “Top 10 Scientific Discoveries” of 2009. The journal Science declared Ardi the “breakthrough of the year.”
Ardi, an nearly complete fossilized female skeleton, was discovered by Timothy Douglas White, an American Paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in the arid badlands near the Awash River in Ethiopia in 1994.
Examination and description of Ardi took nearly 15 years before releasing publication. Although it is not known whether Ardi’s offspring actually developed into Homo sapiens, the discovery was expected to be of great significance since Ardi is the oldest known hominid fossil. Ardi had been theorized to be an ancestor to Australopithecus afarensis, more commonly known as Lucy.
Posted in History of Evolution, What Darwin Said, What Scientists Say | 
Tags: Ardi, Ardipithecus ramidus, Charles Darwin, Darwin, evidence, evolution, fossil record, genetics, genome, human evolution, Human origins, Origin of Species, out of Africa, theory of evolution, Timothy Douglas White | 
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