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Partial skeleton gives ancient hominids a new look

A trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils throws unexpected light on some of humanity’s oldest evolutionary relatives

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

It’s been 4.4 million years since a female now nicknamed Ardi lived in eastern Africa, but she still knows how to make an entrance.

STEPPING OUT An artist’s interpretation shows how a 4.4-million-year-old female Ardipithecus may have looked. 2009, J.H.