Dr. Tim White et al. have been working on the analysis of Ardipithecus ramidus for the past 15 years. The news they announced yesterday is groundbreaking. The original video I post was removed – which is weird… anyhow – here is some NBC news coverage of the story – hardly a good substitute for the in depth video that was up last week – but it’ll have to do for now.
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jake
// Oct 4, 2009 at 5:54 am
I think a saw an episode about Ardi on Monster Quest, except it was in contemporary times and most of the events took place in Arkansas or somewhere like that.
Joking aside, I watched this whole video and it’s really cool. This stuff is exciting.
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devin
// Oct 4, 2009 at 10:59 pm
this video has been taken down already.
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Constant Gina
// Oct 5, 2009 at 6:14 am
Ignoring, for a moment, the inevitable obfuscatory asshattery of the creonuts, that’s one beautiful, beautiful fossil, and a beautiful piece of work on the part of the researchers.
Slow-cooked science for the win.
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beth
// Oct 5, 2009 at 11:57 am
To watch the video I ORIGINALLY posted (the one that Jake is talking about) you can watch it here: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1001/1
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