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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

An older hominin taxon, Ardipithecus kadabba, which is also found in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia, is argued by some researchers to be a direct ancestor of Ar. ramidus because both …

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 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 …

They were originally referred to as a subspecies of Ardipithecus ramidus (Haile-Selassie 2001), but were later elevated to a species based primarily on the primitive morphology of the C/P3...

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 …

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. …