NEW DISCOVERIES

Aniket Bhatt & Yali Aviram

SHATTERED ANCESTRYBy Katherine Harmon, Scientific American February 2013

LINEAR DISCOVER PATHWAY LUCY 1974

ARDI MOSAIC (ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS) ORGANISM

4.4 MILLION YEARS OLD

ARAMIS, ETHIOPIA

FEATURES& WHAT NOT

HANDSCLIMBER

FEETTRANSITION FROM TREES TO WALKING

PELVIS HOMINID NOT APE SKULL

TEETH MODERN NOT APE

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

MÉLANGE HOW TO ORGANISM DEFINE HOMININ? LUCY & ARDI BEST ARDI IS

OF BOTH WORLDS SIDE BRANCHNOT POINT A TO POINT B

“WHAT WE’RE GLIMPSING IN THE FOSSIL RECORD IS BUT A FLICKER OF THE

ANCIENT DIVERSITY” ~Carol V. Ward, University of Missouri

BURTELE SPECIES

FEETALL WE HAVE, 8 BONESGRASPING BIG TOE, CLIMBER

AGEBURTELE - 3.4 MYAARDI - 4.4 MYA

OREOPITHECUS BAMBOLII (7-9 MYA)

FACEFORWARD FORAMEN MAGNUM

TEETHSMALLER CANINES

LOCOMOTION ADAPTED TO TREES

LACK OF ONLY FOSSIL GENOMES EVIDENCE

EXTRAPOLATION CONTROVERSIAL