A new study reveals humans evolved from African ape-like ancestors. Researchers analysed the ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed “Ardi.” The fossil is 4.4 million years old. Ardi possesses ...

Explore how Ardipithecus ramidus reshapes our understanding of human evolution and the misleading nature of extant apes as analogs. In retrospect, clues to this vast divide between the evolutionary ...