Thanks Granny Magda
Here's another link to the story (I had trouble with your link):
ABC News articleand
http://www.sciencemag.org/ardipithecus/and if you register (free) or are registered:
Just a moment...
4.4 million years ago
Woodland ecology
Bipedal gait
Blows the "Savannah theory" out the door.
With a hairy body and snout-like face, ...
Curious how your news source knows about the "hairy body" -- it's not discussed in the Science article (do we want to monkey with another piece of evidence for evolutionist fraud?)
quote:
It was the find of a lifetime. But the team’s excitement was tempered by the skeleton’s terrible condition. The bones literally crumbled when touched. White called it road kill. And parts of the skeleton had been trampled and scattered into more than 100 fragments; the skull was crushed to 4 centimeters in height. The researchers decided to remove entire blocks of sediment, covering the blocks in plaster and moving them to the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa to finish excavating the fossils.
It took three field seasons to uncover and extract the skeleton, repeatedly crawling the site to gather 100% of the fossils present. At last count, the team had cataloged more than 110 specimens of Ar. ramidus, not to mention 150,000 specimens of fossil plants and animals. "This team seems to suck fossils out of the earth," says anatomist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University in Ohio, who analyzed the postcranial bones but didn’t work in the field. In the lab, he gently unveils a cast of a tiny, pea-sized sesamoid bone for effect. "Their obsessiveness gives youthis!"
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This new evidence overwhelmingly refutes the once-favored but now moribund hypothesis that upright-walking hominins arose in open grasslands. "There’s so much good data here that people aren't going to be able to question whether early hominins were living in woodlands," says paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill of Yale University. "Savannas had nothing to do with upright walking."
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