Resumen de Shattered ancestry.
The article discusses the discovery of hominin fossils in Ethiopia which called into question many assumptions about human evolution and ancestry. The Ardipithecus ramidus specimen found in Afar showed evidence of human- and ape-like traits such as walking on all fours, tree climbing, and bipedalism, while the hominid foot fossil found in Burtele suggested upright and tree-based locomotion. Other topics include the last common ancestor between humans and chimpanzees, the possibility of multiple overlapping lineages in human evolution, and the use of data from genetic research into mutation rates of humans and apes in paleontology.
