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'Ardi' Reverses Common Understanding of Human Evolution

Fri, Oct. 02 2009 09:33 AM EDT
Owen Lovejoy
(Photo: Kent State University)
Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, Kent State University professor of anthropology, stands next to the reconstructed skeleton of "Lucy," a near-complete fossil of a human ancestor that walked upright more than three million years ago. A team of researchers including Lovejoy today unveiled research findings of a skeleton older than "Lucy," nicknamed "Ardi.
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