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Live It. Love It! Love It. Live It. Learn SILVER KEY SILVER WORLD LANGUAGE POSTER: LANGUAGE WORLD BE ALL RIGHT LOGO CONTEST: Be All Right Building a Culture of Health at CRLS Be All FIRST PLACE Right NEWSLETTER: NALEDI ising Star Cave, South Africa (CNN)When Berger’s team came up with the startling theory an amateur caver and university geologist HUMAN arrived at Lee Berger’s house one night -- consisting of infants, children, adults and Rin late 2013 with a fragment of a fossil jawbone elderly individuals -- were found, in a previously in hand, they broke out the beers and called isolated chamber within the cave. National Geographic. GROWTH Find out a little more about where we came from. Naledi’s brain was no bigger than an orange, Berger, a professor at the University of the Volume #2 Spring Edition 2016 Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, -- a trait that suggests climbing and tool-using knew he had something big on his hands. capabilities. From Neanderthals to What he didn’t know at the time is that it would Homo naledi was relatively big: it stood about shake up our understanding of the progress of 5 feet tall, had long legs, and its feet are almost the Modern Day Human. human evolution and even pose new questions identical to ours, suggesting it had the ability to about our identity. walk long distances. “Overall, Homo naledi looks like one of the most plumbing the depths of the limestone tunnels primitive members of our genus, but it also has LUCY ARDIin the Rising Star Cave outside Johannesburg, some surprisingly human-like features, enough to Berger and his team have discovered what they warrant placing it in the genus Homo,” says John CONTENTS: ucy, consisting of a skeleton forty percent he world’s oldest skel skeleton includes her skull, complete, was discovered in Ethiopia by etonsay and ismost a newcomplete addition added White,to our a paleontologistfamily tree. teeth, arms, hands,Hawks pelvis, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Donald Johanson in 1974, and was dated skeleton of a potential in the University of California legs and feet. Baseda senior on these author on the papers describing the new pg.1 LUCY Thuman ancestor -- named at Berkeley’s Human Evolution Lat 3.2 million years of age. He calculated her to have stood about 3’6” tall, and to have weighed “Ardi,” shortrelative for Ardipithecus “Homo Researchnaledi,” Center. and “It’sthey not say a itthat appears she and others in her about 50 pounds. Certain features suggested ramidus --to has have been unveiledburied itschimp. dead It’s not -- a human.”a behavior speciesscientists were both tree- and to Johanson that it may have walked erect, and by an international team of 47 pg. 2 ARDI was therefore evolving into a human. In a recent researchers.previously thought was limited to humans.had a relatively small, chimp- interview, Johanson recollects, “I happened to HERC evolved from the sized brain, long arms and glance over my right shoulder . .and there on short legs. pg. 3 NALEDI “Laboratory for Human the surface of the ground was a little bit of an WHAT THEY BELIEVE LUCY LOOKS LIKE investigation of Ardi is detailed elbow, I recognized it immediately as belonging in a special issue of the journal Evolutionary Studies to a human ancestor.” Science. founded in 1970. common ancestor of chimps continued... pg. 3 DISCOVERED Johanson are primarily the hip and knee joints, DISCOVEREDand humans probably lived Lest one get the impression that Johanson is but numerous studies on the hip have shown otherwise. Oxnard, in his 1987 book, Fossils, year-old hominid opens up Ardi, who was all female, of the may apes years fossils ago, based were on genetic found and me point out that many in the anthropological Teeth and Sex (which contains an excellent a new chapter on human or may not have inhad anyAfrica. direct” Lucyother estimates, was discoveredso Ardi falls community have yet to be so convinced. Indeed, summary of these various studies), claims that, evolution because “it is as close descendants.A Her species somewhere between this still it is impossible to make snap judgments like this, may havein given Ethi rise toop Lucy’sia, Ardiunknown was species discovered and “Lucy,” while a number of sophisticated studies have humans and African apes than do these living the last common ancestor of species, Australopithecus.in Eastern Africa,the famousand 3.2Naledi million-year- was shown that the austraiopithecines, in general, chimpanzees and humans,” old “ape-man” hominid, also and “Lucy,” in particular, were not ape-human are unique” (p.
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