Yesterday, scientists told the world what they know about Ardipithecus ramidus..."Ardi" for short...the oldest pre-human species yet found. Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
A partial skeleton is believed to be the oldest link in the evolutionary chain!
Adri is not the long-sought "missing link"... the ancestor that scientists say humans and apes have in common...but comes close. And it helps show that both human beings and apes have evolved from something, about six million years ago, that did not look much like either!
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