lucy and ardi

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an early ancestor

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Lucy vs Ardi

Lucy probably ate fruits, plants, roots, seeds, and insects.

One of the first Australopithecus afarensis to live.

She is one of the oldest australopithecus known, and she shows some characteristics of earlier beings.

Lucy is the worlds most famous early human ancestor.

Though, her remains are only about 40% complete,

Lucy looks like an ape with some human features.

Lucy was a female Australopithecus Afarensis who is believed to have lived 3.2 million years ago. 40% of her bones were discovered and contained in several different pieces.

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Lucy was 3'6 and weighed 64 pounds.

Lucy got her famous name from the beatles song " Lucy in the Sky"

She has a Y chromosome that is believed to be directly linked with the first known woman.

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Ardi was larger and bigger than Lucy.

No evidence on Lucy's spoken language.

Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago, and is classified as a hominin.

Lucy is female because her pelvis bone is similar to the shape of a modern human female.

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They both had different looks.

It is possible that Lucy did have children.

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Lucy was about 3'6.

Similarities

Lucy was discovered on November 24, 1974

The skeleton shows evidence of small skull capacity akin to that of apes and of bipedal upright walk akin to that of humans, supporting the debated view that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size in human evolution.

No one really knows how Lucy died.

Both Lucy and Ardi walked upright.

Lucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray

Their brain size was similar to that of a chimp.

Summary of Ardi

The skeleton fossils were found 15 years ago in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia

Additional Info about Ardi.

What has Ardi done to this world?

Ardi was our earliest ancestor.

Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

Ardi was an omnivore.

She ate plants, meat, and fruit. She didn't eat hard foods such as nuts and tubers.

She lived in woodland conditions more than a million years before the famous "Lucy" fossil

Even though she walked upright her feet were well adapted to grasping, and researchers think she was able to climb trees.

Ardi's skull had been crushed into many pieces but after years of reconstructional work, scientists discovered a very small brained cranium of an early female hominid that is very different from a chimpanzee.

Her teeth resemble modern human teeth more closely than they do to those of a chimpanzee.

Why THIS INFO IS IMPORTANT

It's the most intact human ancestor ever discovered

The discovery is of great significance and added much to the debate on Ardipithecus and its place in human evolution.

Ardi weighed about 110 pounds

and was up to 4 feet.

It is the

most complete early hominid specimen, with most of the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands and feet intact

Lucy and Ardi by Eitan Furman and Julius Velasquez

Lucy

Ardi

Ardi

Ardipithecus ramidus is an ancient hominin that lived 4.4 million years ago. Ardi climbed trees, walked on two feet and had a predominantly plant-based diet. Ardi was not fully human, but also did not climb or walk like modern chimpanzees or gorillas.

In all, 110 different pieces of fossilized bone were found