Biology:Kadanuumuu
Kadanuumuu ("Big Man" in the Afar language[1]) is the nickname of KSD-VP-1/1, a 3.58-million-year-old partial Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in the Afar Region of Ethiopia in 2005 by a team led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Based on skeletal analysis, the fossil is believed to conclusively show that the species was fully bipedal.[2]
At more than 5 feet (152 cm) in stature, Kadanuumuu is much taller than the famous Lucy fossil of the same species discovered in the 1970s, and is approximately 400,000 years older.[2] Among other characteristics, Kadanuumuu's scapula (part of the shoulder blade), the oldest discovered to date for a hominid, is comparable to that of modern humans, suggesting that the species was land rather than tree-based.[2] Not all researchers agree with this conclusion.[3]
See also
- Dawn of Humanity
References
- ↑ "3.6 million-year-old relative of 'Lucy' discovered: Early hominid skeleton confirms human-like walking is ancient" (in en). https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100621151119.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rex Dalton (2010-06-20). "Africa's next top hominid: Ancient human relative could walk upright.". Nature. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100621/full/news.2010.305.html.
- ↑ Ker Than (2010-06-21). ""Lucy" Kin Pushes Back Evolution of Upright Walking?". National Geographic. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100621-lucy-early-humans-walking-upright-science/.
External links
- An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia -- Original peer-reviewed paper.
- Images of the fossil and its excavation
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