The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means "ground/floor" and ramid means "root". The pithecus portion of the name is from the Greek …

Nov 14, 2025 · Ardipithecus, the earliest known genus of the zoological family Hominidae (the group that includes humans and excludes great apes) and the likely ancestor of …

Dec 18, 2025 · Ardipithecus kadabba was bipedal (walked upright), probably similar in body and brain size to a modern chimpanzee, and had canines that resemble those in later hominins but …

Some paleoanthropologists have suggested that Ardipithecus may be a better candidate for our ancestry than one or more of the australopiths. It has also been suggested that australopiths …

Ardipithecus is an early hominin known from Ethiopia, Africa. This group existed from about 5.8 to 4.4 million years ago. The better-known species of that group, Ardipithecus ramidus, is dated …

Ardipithecus ramidus was a facultative biped and retained an opposable big toe. However, like its predecessors, its teeth were small with minimal size variation between males and females.

Ardipithecus ramidus was discovered by Tim White and associates in 1994 in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The partial skeleton ARA-VP-6/500 is now considered by many to be the oldest …