Thursday, October 1, 2009

Ardi makes Lucy look like a Newborn

Lucy is 3.2 million years old. Ardi is 4.4 million years old. She walked upright, was taller and weighed more than Lucy. Her brain was about the size of a modern chimp's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/science/02fossil.html?hp

This extension of the human lineage an additional 1.2 million years into the past is a large statement in our presence on this planet. Our actions, motivated by our biology, have inextricable links to our environment and the longer those links stay intact, the more powerful they become.