Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 11:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, October 1, 2009 -- A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, who lived 4.4 million years ago. The discovery reveals the biology of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date.