Ardi, stirring up controversy for anthropologists everywhere!
October 21st, 2010You may have recently heard news about “Ardi” (Ardipithecus ramidus), which is the oldest and most complete hominid skeleton that has been found to date. Not surprisingly, controversy abounds regarding what this skeleton means for the ancestral trees of apes and humans. See the following video for a quick peek into the ongoing discussion about where to place Ardi on the primate family tree.
FOR MORE ABOUT ARDI, check out Discovery Channel’s interactive website “DISCOVERING ARDI.”
You can also read more about “Lucy” and other primate fossils of Africa near the end of the page in our “Primates of Africa” section.
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October 21st, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Interesting how the scientific community automatically rejects some things based on, I never studied that in school. The problem is in finding another good sample to examine pelvis and leg structure to make the case, which is bull. The evidence is already there and a second sample will have other issues, always do. The below thoughts have taken 30 years to be adopted, but the DOGMA is giving way to the mounting evidence of the peopling of the Americas.
The Dogma is that PALEO man could have only come across Bering land bridge. Look at the ICE PACK at 20,000 to 30,000 to 60,000 years ago and Again at 9000 to14000 years ago. Traveling 60 to 90 miles of tundra hunting mega fauna—really, try transporting a kill even partially processed out, a processed ton is a processed ton, second you are not finding lots of large animals on that tundra and is not worth the energy expended to travel to it, and third the animals just decided to trot on over–really. Much more likely from ASIA and Europe to have been by boats hunting the ice pack for large game that could have easily been floated back home, Whales, Walrus, Seals, and Arctic Bears.
Never mind that Lithic technology from Western Europe and central Europe matches Lithic technology in the new world, Clovis, Cumberland, El Hobo cultural sites as compared to Solutrean sites in Europe. Never mind that no litchis match between Asia and the new world, and never mind that DNA of Paleo man indicates ancient European. To see all theories see the below site.
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Chumash/EntryDate.html#european
Dr Leaky, his wife and Son warned to keep an open mind after finding Lucy!