Discoveries in history of human evolution by DESERREA CRUME

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-27 03:28:29 UTC

Lucy, a partial Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, is one of the most famous hominid fossils ever found in Ethiopia.

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First family (ardi

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-27 03:34:21 UTC

Just a year after discovering Lucy, Johanson’s team got lucky again, finding a jumble of more than 200 A. afarensis fossils at the site of Hadar.

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deserrea_crume — 2014-05-27 03:42:13 UTC

afarensis reconstruction

Australopithecus garhi

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-27 03:51:25 UTC

found a partial skull and other pieces of the 2.5-million-year-old species known as A. garhi in 1990 at the site of Bouri. Since then, no additional fossils have been unearthed (or, at least, matched to the species). Not much is known about A. garhi. Based on the length of a thigh bone, the species may have had slightly longer legs, and therefore a longer stride, than Lucy’s kind.

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Ardi dug up.

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-27 03:55:52 UTC

Older than Lucy, Ardi is the most complete skeleton of an early hominid. The first pieces of the 4.4-million-year-old Ardi were uncovered in 1992 by one of Tim White’s graduate students, Gen Suwa, in the Middle Awash Valley. White and his colleagues then spent more than 15 years digging Ardi out and analyzing the skeleton.

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Ardipithecus kadabba

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-27 19:12:50 UTC

History unearthed hand, foot and other bones in the Middle Awash Valley that looked a lot like those of Ar. ramidus—only the bones were almost a million years older, with an age of about 5.8 million years.

Dikika child (Lucy's baby

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-29 19:08:02 UTC

Worlds oldest child. The world's oldest known child has been discovered in East Africa in an area known appropriately as the Cradle of Humanity. The 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in north Ethiopia's badlands along the Great Rift Valley (map of Ethiopia).

Herto fossils The bones have been allocated to the sub-species Homo sapiens idaltu. Contemporary humans are Homo sapiens sapiens.

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-29 19:17:16 UTC

Australopithecus anamensis

deserrea_crume — 2014-05-29 19:41:20 UTC

Is a stem-human species that lives approximately four million years ago. Nearly one hundred fossil specimens are known from Kenya and eithiopia.