A detailed analysis of ANCESTRY By Katherine Harmon, Scientific American February 2013

1. NEW DISCOVERIES
Aniket Bhatt & Yali Aviram

2. SHATTERED
ANCESTRY
By Katherine Harmon, Scientific American February 2013

3. LINEAR DISCOVER
PATHWAY LUCY 1974
ARDI MOSAIC
(ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS) ORGANISM
4.4 MILLION YEARS OLD

4. ARAMIS,
ETHIOPIA

5. FEATURES
& WHAT NOT

6. HANDS
CLIMBER
FEET
TRANSITION FROM TREES TO
WALKING
PELVIS
HOMINID NOT APE
SKULL
TEETH MODERN NOT APE

7. WHY IS IT
IMPORTANT?

8. MÉLANGE HOW TO
ORGANISM DEFINE HOMININ?
LUCY & ARDI BEST ARDI IS
OF BOTH WORLDS SIDE BRANCH
NOT POINT A TO POINT B

11. “WHAT WE’RE GLIMPSING IN THE FOSSIL
RECORD IS BUT A FLICKER OF THE
ANCIENT DIVERSITY”
~Carol V. Ward, University of Missouri

13. BURTELE
SPECIES

15. FEET
ALL WE HAVE, 8 BONES
GRASPING BIG TOE, CLIMBER
AGE
BURTELE - 3.4 MYA
ARDI - 4.4 MYA

16. OREOPITHECUS
BAMBOLII(7-9 MYA)

17. FACE
FORWARD FORAMEN
MAGNUM
TEETH
SMALLER CANINES
LOCOMOTION
ADAPTED TO TREES

18. LACK OF ONLY FOSSIL
GENOMES EVIDENCE
EXTRAPOLATION CONTROVERSIAL