Ardipithecus was a ground-breaking fossil discovery that shows evidence of bipedalism and aboreal activity.

Ardipithecus was a ground-breaking fossil discovery that shows evidence of bipedalism and aboreal activity.

1. Ardipithecus was a ground-breaking fossil discovery that shows evidence of
bipedalism and aboreal activity. "Ardi" was a late Pre-Australopithecine. The
fossils show that they lived in forests and can also show their behaviors and
what life was like after the human and chimpanzee divergence took place
about 6 mya. Question: so if mutated genes were they only way for people
adapt then does that mean that they all mutated within a few generations or
did they independently acquire traits for survival in their environment?
2. In this thread let's talk about what we can learn about past life by studying
their fossils. That means let's talk about what a fossil is, what we can learn
from it, how we learn that, etc. If you bring in outside material, and I would be
very pleased if you did, please link it to a source so we all can take a look
at it.
Just to start things up, why is it that paleontologists no longer think that
velociraptors looked the way that they did in the Juraissic Park movies.
3. The most famous way of dating is the least relevant for most of hominid
evolution. Virtually all of us have heard about carbon dating (carbon 14
dating, radiocarbon dating, etc.). Yet for studying these most ancient of
human ancestors, it is worthless.
In fact, it is more relevant for archaeology than biological anthropology. Why?