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A 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone analysis suggests that Ardipithecus ramidus, an early human ancestor, was capable of both climbing like an ape and walking upright, indicating it was more similar to modern African apes than previously thought, which could reshape our understanding of human evolution.
A new study revisits the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus, revealing that early human ancestors retained ape-like climbing traits while beginning to walk upright, challenging previous views and suggesting a more complex evolutionary transition from trees to ground.
Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4-million-year-old hominin species discovered in Ethiopia, exhibits a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, including a foramen magnum indicating bipedalism and adaptations for arboreal life, challenging previous assumptions about human evolution and the last common ancestor with apes.