Discovering Ardi - How Ardi Walked - 10/11 @ 9pm E/P on Discovery

The two-hour special premieres this Sunday, October 11th @ 9pm E/P on Discovery.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html?smid=YTDSC-YTD-SHP

Clues from Ardi's pelvis indicate she walked upright on two legs, not on all four like chimpanzees.

Following publication in the journal Science on the discovery and study of a 4.4 million-year-old female partial skeleton nicknamed "Ardi," Discovery Channel will present a world premiere special, DISCOVERING ARDI, Sunday October 11 at 9 PM (ET/PT) documenting the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to this landmark publication of the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils.

UNDERSTANDING ARDI, a one-hour special produced in collaboration with CBS News will air at 11 PM (ET/PT) immediately following DISCOVERING ARDI. The special is moderated by former CBS and CNN anchor Paula Zahn and includes research team members Dr. Tim White, Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Dr. Giday WoldeGabriel, Dr. Owen Lovejoy, and science journalist Ann Gibbons

The scientific investigation began in the Ethiopian desert 17 years ago, and now opens a new chapter on human evolution, revealing the first evolutionary steps our ancestors took after we diverged from a common ancestor we once shared with living chimpanzees. "Ardi's" centerpiece skeleton, the other hominids she lived with, and the rocks, soils, plants and animals that made up her world were analyzed in laboratories around the world, and the scientists have now published their findings in the prestigious journal Science.

"Ardi" is now the oldest skeleton from our (hominid) branch of the primate family tree. These Ethiopian discoveries reveal an early grade of human evolution in Africa that predated the famous Australopithecus nicknamed "Lucy." Ardipithecus was a woodland creature with a small brain, long arms, and short legs. The pelvis and feet show a primitive form of two-legged walking on the ground, but Ardipithecus was also a capable tree climber, with long fingers and big toes that allowed their feet to grasp like an ape's. The discoveries answer old questions about how hominids became bipedal.

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[DarwinsFriend]

@chrthrgd "If we came from chimpanzees after millions of years"

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner - you need to do the "Reply" thing for your questions/comments to be flagged in my account.

First question is answered with another question: Who claimed man evolved from chimpanzees?

"how come in the last 5thousand years at least there has been no evidence of any evolotution"

Second question: 50 Centuries is nothing in the evolutionary timescale. Please open a biology book and read.

[DarwinsFriend]

@fellowservant34 ""Ardi" has now been officially debunked and joined the long list of fossils falsely interpreted...."

And your links to such evidence are? Please supply some documentation to back up your statement - if you wish to be taken seriously. Thanks.

[saburius]

Another knife into the heart of creationist myths.

[Xelastic]

Thing like this should be freely available to the public, Discovery.

[VinnyMonster1]

@AppleSouffle It wouldn't surprise me, Ardi seems to fit into a similar ecological niche as chimps, and he was physically similar. So it'd be no surprise if he had a similar diet.

[AppleSouffle]

What do you think of the possibility that Ardi ate meat?

I'm reading The Human Story by Christopher Sloan. He wrote that Ardi was found with fossils of red colobus monkeys and small antelopes. Chimpanzees eat both of those animals today. Chimpanzees and Ardi had similar brain sizes.

[DarwinsFriend]

@yermomsboxx LMAO! (outstanding) ; )

[yermomsboxx]

@DarwinsFriend

Oddly enough, I think @TheLilragexxsnappy would be more the feces flinging type than Ardi.

[DarwinsFriend]

@TheLilragexxsnappy That's it?

[TheLilragexxsnappy]

suck a dick DarwinsFriend 

[grimysoldja]

@PatOskittlezWatts oh and you should have died in that car arash 2 years ago, your brain is not evolved for modern thinking and your holding us back.

[grimysoldja]

@PatOskittlezWatts what were you doing here? "im not here to preach" (thats exactly what you were doing) oh and i love this "i mostly ignore everything you say" (well that just about sums you up when it comes to rational thinking) YOUR AN IDIOT. hopefully since commenting on this video youve opened your eyes to reality but i very much doubt that. in future take your fairy tales to a suitable video you fucking moron!