Australopithicus ramidus was thought to be the earliest bipedal near hominid. As of 1996 much research was still needed. I hope that someone can fill me in on how the research is going and what new discoveries have been made regarding these fossilized remains?
2007-01-10 14:43:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
O God, Ardipithecus ramidus. Hominid, schmominid.
Knuckle bones, people; knuckle bones don't make a hominid. They should hurry up and publish the rest of their findings already - don't you have cranial remains or something?
Isn't there somebody claiming to have identified the remains of a distinct subspecies? Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba, I believe. Everyone wants a piece of the hominid pie.
Did you know that we have next to nothing in the way of fossil evidence for chimpanzees? Well, duh: everytime a paleoanthropologist digs up a fossil chimp, s/he yells, "hominid!" Jeez louise.
Ardipithecus won't be anything but drama for another few years. Ditto on Orrorin.
2007-01-12 18:30:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Australopithecus Ramidus
2016-10-17 01:40:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This species is actually named Ardipithecus Ramidus. I'm very fascinated with this species, as it is considered by some scientists to be in the chimpanzee branch, rather than human branch. Some consider Ramidus as a proto-human because of a similarity in teeth with Australopithecus species.
2007-01-10 16:32:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They arent the ones on the gieco commercials are they???
2007-01-14 09:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by Rick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋