You’ll score major points with your anthropology professor (or ens secondary-school equivalent) if you mention the major discoveries Robert’s magazine has just published about a fossil called Ardipithecus ramidus.
If you loved Lucy, you’ll adore Ardi.
You can also read about the discovery in
Hmm… Interesting! First post?
I have to say, you shouldn’t feel the need to write a useless post just to get first.
No, seriously! I only added the first post question as an afterthought!
That’s cool. I should definitely tell my science teacher (for my class on evolution) about this.
I read about this! It’s really exciting. Going to read your article now! I can’t wait to see where this leads…
*is in awe*
Why did you have to post this AFTER biology! Why, Why, Why!
Because nobody was allowed to talk about it before the press conference at 10:30 this morning.
Ooh! You were at a press conference about it? Can you tell me about the press conference? What time /did/ you post this? What happened at the press conference? This is all very exciting!
Hmm, I was wondering about the timing- 15 years of waiting? Does that mean all data was sealed until the release of the paper? Or were all of the relevant researchers on the dig? No, that can’t be.
Thanks Robert! That’s really neat. I’ll be sure to mention it in class tomorrow!
It is really neat to see artifacts from earlier times. In my archaeology and prehistory class we’ve gotten to go and look at them. We’re often allowed to touch the stone tools as stone doesn’t wear down as easily when handled. We haven’t seen any artifacts nearly this old but we’ve looked at various tools including ones that Homo Habilis, Erectus, neanderthals, and early modern humans used.
Hey! I did a short report on Ardi in Biology. Robert’s article was more info then all the other sources I could find, combined.
It was an article published by the magazine Robert works for. The article itself was by Ann Gibbons.
Oposable big toes? Why’d we have to loose those? Having an oposable big toe would be cool!
In all seriousness, I really do enjoy learning about paleoarcheology and our early ancestors.
It’d make walking a bit difficult, though.
I guess. Putting on shoes might be hard, but not if everyone had evolved that way, because then shoes would have been designed differently.
Ardi’s shoes probably would have looked like baseball gloves.
I walk up to the science wing (although today is a “Science Fair 101” day, not an evolution day), and there’s Robert’s magazine’s article, top of the fourth column of the EBE times (bulletin board with lots of cool evolutionary articles). My teacher and I just had a brief discussion on the evolutionary implications.
Dang it… We were doing anthropology/paleontology in Global History, and I was going to tell the teacher, so maybe just this once I could impress her… But of course she brought it up before I could say anything.
*pulls out hair*
I read about Ardi in the newspaper. The caption to the (ugly) picture said Move Over Lucy. That’s kind of mean…
The funny thing is, half an hour after I saw the notice on Museblog, there was a story about it on the news.
There’s going to be a whole special on Ardi on Discovery Channel at 9pm eastern.
I know, there are way too many commercials for it, though. I kinda lost interest.
My Pre-AP Biology teacher (who is very big on evolution) took the opportunity to spend a period talking about human evolution, our ancestors, cousins, etc. And then, only a few days ago, a issue of Oddyssey magazine appears, all about the same subject. Isn’t it weird when things work out like that?
Well, guess what?
I have to write a report about Ardi this week!
Would anyone be willing to point me in the general direction about why she was a biped? And the short canine teeth?
I am feeling lazy.