“The novel anatomy that we describe in these papers fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins and early evolution,” said anatomist and evolutionary biologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University, a scientist with the project. In a summary article in Science, Lovejoy wrote that these and other behaviors “would have substantially intensified male parental investment a breakthrough adaptation with anatomical, behavioral, and physiological consequences for early hominids and for all of their descendants”
The last line is typical of the puffery of Ardi from a crumbling bone fragments into something phantasmagorical.
www.bio-medicine.org/.../Ardi-displaces-Lucy-as-oldest-hominid-skeleton-10222-2/ -
Reverse position of the last two lines of my post as follows:
www.bio-medicine.org/.../Ardi-displaces-Lucy-as-oldest-hominid-skeleton-10222-2/ -
The last line is typical of the puffery of Ardi from a crumbling bone fragments into something phantasmagorical.
(this is my comment, not part of the article)