Our canines have actually become shorter over time. Just look at the canines on the first human, Ardipithecus ramidus, or Australopithecus anamensis versus modern humans. In fact, our canines ...

Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A. ramidus suggest that the species lived in the forest. Exhibiting some chimp-like characteristics, A. anamensis' jaws ...

ramidus a "missing link ... The first stage is best represented by Ardipithecus—"ground zero"—a primitive biped with one part of its foot in the past and one in the future, its male canines ...

Discussion continues over whether Ardipithecus is a hominid or not, whether it walked on two feet or not, and what its relationship is to the 3.9?.2 million year old fossils found in 1995 by Meave ...

Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old fossil, has been found to be related to human linage after many years of heated debate over its identity, reported Science Daily on Jan. 6.

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all.