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Fri 10 Oct 2009Meet Ardi - a mother to all of humanity
She was 1.2 metres tall, weighed 50 kg, lived in Ethiopia about 4.4 million years ago, and she tells us some surprising things about the path of human evolution, writes DICK AHLSTROMScience Editor
A DETAILED ANALYSIS of human-like fossils discovered in Ethiopia has taken mankind back in time, a million years closer to the “missing link” ancestor we share with the great apes. In the process, scientists have been forced to rethink human evolution and what the missing link must have looked like.
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