image: Digitally rendered composite hand of the "Ardi" partial skeleton. This image relates to an article in the Oct. 2, 2009 issue of Science. The study, by Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University and colleagues, is titled, "Careful Climbing in the Miocene: The Forelimbs of Ardipithecus ramidus and Humans Are Primitive." See figure 1 of the paper for caption information. view more
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