Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/...ci_before_lucy

WASHINGTON – The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.

This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.

[theHawk]

And yet there is still no conclusive connection with humans to the apes. Its all just a theory.