"Lucy" was a partial skeleton discovered in Africa in 1974. She represented the "link", the intermediate ancestor between apes to humans that lived 3.2 million years ago -- which all figures into the course of human evolution.
Now I see in the news that a much older hominid has been discovered in Ethiopia, which scientist are calling "Ardi", who lived an estimated 4.4 million years ago, and that perhaps humans did not evolve from apes at all, but, rather, both apes and humans evolved from the same common ancestor.
I'm sure this sort of news is most distressing to evangelican christian Creationists (who insist we all evolved from a mythical Adam and Eve 6 to 10 thousand years ago -- from a Garden replete with a Tree of Knowledge and a talking snake), but I find it intellectually thrilling.
Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found - Yahoo! News
Now I see in the news that a much older hominid has been discovered in Ethiopia, which scientist are calling "Ardi", who lived an estimated 4.4 million years ago, and that perhaps humans did not evolve from apes at all, but, rather, both apes and humans evolved from the same common ancestor.
I'm sure this sort of news is most distressing to evangelican christian Creationists (who insist we all evolved from a mythical Adam and Eve 6 to 10 thousand years ago -- from a Garden replete with a Tree of Knowledge and a talking snake), but I find it intellectually thrilling.
Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found - Yahoo! News
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