Discovering Ardi – Building Ardi’s World – 10/11 @ 9pm E/P on Discovery
The two-hour special premieres this Sunday, October 11th @ 9pm E/P on Discovery.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html?smid=YTDSC-YTD-SHP
Scientists returned to the Ethiopian desert year after year to search for fossilized evidence of the plants and animals that lived with Ardi.
Following publication in the journal Science on the discovery and study of a 4.4 million-year-old female partial skeleton nicknamed “Ardi,” Discovery Channel will present a world premiere special, DISCOVERING ARDI, Sunday October 11 at 9 PM (ET/PT) documenting the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to this landmark publication of the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils.
UNDERSTANDING ARDI, a one-hour special produced in collaboration with CBS News will air at 11 PM (ET/PT) immediately following DISCOVERING ARDI. The special is moderated by former CBS and CNN anchor Paula Zahn and includes research team members Dr. Tim White, Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Dr. Giday WoldeGabriel, Dr. Owen Lovejoy, and science journalist Ann Gibbons
The scientific investigation began in the Ethiopian desert 17 years ago, and now opens a new chapter on human evolution, revealing the first evolutionary steps our ancestors took after we diverged from a common ancestor we once shared with living chimpanzees. “Ardi’s” centerpiece skeleton, the other hominids she lived with, and the rocks, soils, plants and animals that made up her world were analyzed in laboratories around the world, and the scientists have now published their findings in the prestigious journal Science.
“Ardi” is now the oldest skeleton from our (hominid) branch of the primate family tree. These Ethiopian discoveries reveal an early grade of human evolution in Africa that predated the famous Australopithecus nicknamed “Lucy.” Ardipithecus was a woodland creature with a small brain, long arms, and short legs. The pelvis and feet show a primitive form of two-legged walking on the ground, but Ardipithecus was also a capable tree climber, with long fingers and big toes that allowed their feet to grasp like an ape’s. The discoveries answer old questions about how hominids became bipedal.
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But my 6000 year …
But my 6000 year old book says that!
“Take a giant box …
“Take a giant box of car parts and shake it around for millions of years and then magically one day BAM! a fully working car rolls right out and starts running….?”
Yep, you’re right, that’s pretty much what the Bible claims. Evolution, on the other hand, is the exact opposite.
You know, I can …
You know, I can understand people rejecting evolutionary theory because they’ve been raised in an ultra-religious household … but you “Young Earth Creation” people are a special kind of stupid. Believing the Earth to be 6,000 years old is, at this point, every bit as ignorant as claiming that it’s flat.
I think you don’t …
I think you don’t believe in evolution because you either didn’t graduate from high school, didn’t graduate from college with any undergrad level biology course, never paid attention to any of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence supporting evolution, and/or were brought up in a religious home and have been trained to reject any and all information countering your beliefs.
very well said, …
very well said, your absolutely right.
umm…no. Why …
umm…no. Why don’t you
1. Go look up the definition of SCIENTIFIC THEORY
2. GO READ AN ACTUAL EVOLUTION BOOK.
- You may then realize why what you just said makes absolutely no sense. There is over a century of research with actual evidence of evolution.
3. Go look up these articles
- Scientists get RNA to CREATE ITSELF in primordial earth conditions recreated in a lab (Called “Life’s spark recreated”
-Speciation in the rainforest
-Darwin’s Finches
-Insertion mutations in bacteria
etc.
I’m frankly tired …
I’m frankly tired of a lifetime of make-believe bible tales, not just movies but idiots like yourself who have not one shred of scientific background. Just because you have no idea WHY you can derive so much information from “just bones in the dirt” doesn’t mean the rest of the intelligent world doesn’t get it.
Accepting …
Accepting evolution is part of growing up, learning how to think and accepting evidence in formulating ones opinions. Believing in a young earth is like believing in Santa Claus, it’s fine when you’re a child but…
Finally the proof …
Finally the proof we were waiting for!!! Oh wait a minute…it was just bones in the dirt again. What kind of imaginary stories, pictures, animations, and documentaries are we going to have to endure for the next few months? Oh well, i had grown weary of Lucy tales…no pun intended.
A scientific theory …
A scientific theory is rarely called a fact because we are always trying to check to make sure they are correct. Gravity is a theory people a theory in the science world is as good as calling it a fact.
if you open an …
if you open an evolution book then your just believing random theories that someone else is promoting… i don’t believe evolution simply because nothing is ever proven as fact.. its all theory
Gravity, quantum, …
Gravity, quantum, relativity, mechanics, thermo dynamics – all theories.
God and religion don’t even qualify as hypothesis or conjecture.
skate – open a book …
skate – open a book about evolution and you will see that it works very well.
Also…GRAVITY is a …
Also…GRAVITY is a theory…
SCIENTIFIC THEORY DOES NOT = THEORY THE DEFINITIONS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
If you were even half educated you would know that…but we all know you aren’t which is why you continue to use that obsolete argument
I just NAMED you …
I just NAMED you fossil evidence…once again you just ignore it. NOT ONLY is there fossil evidence, there is DNA evidence. NOT ONLY THAT, scientists recently THIS PAST MAY created conditions similar to what the primordial earth was, and guess what…THEY GOT RNA TO CREATE ITSELF. If you don’t know what RNA is…it’s the precursor to ALL LIFE
Within the next few years (5-10 tops) you will see RNA being self-synthesized to rRNA = ribosomes = proteins = LIFE CREATING ITSELF. Bible owned.
Take a giant box of …
Take a giant box of car parts and shake it around for millions of years and then magically one day BAM! a fully working car rolls right out and starts running….? The human body is billions of times more complex than a stupid car so do you really think that the evolution of a human is possible?
charli – You just …
charli – You just said you believe in god, a hypothesis without evidence – which you allow to determine your way of life and you call others lemmings? At least you are amusing.
Hey, at least you …
Hey, at least you have good taste. Chali 2na is the man. It is fact.
Have fun with the …
Have fun with the other lemmings
Can’t wait to watch …
If only I was more into science when I was younger. 
haha!
Can’t wait to watch this tonight, about Ardipithecus ramidus.
Have you cared to …
Have you cared to look into biodiversity and geographical distribution? This ties into population studies, and migratory tendencies as well. There are countless species you’ve never seen, or heard of. There are patterns underlying their appearance in certain areas, geographical, and temporal. It is fascinating to study, as I do often in my work. To hear someone say “lack of living evidence” means that aren’t looking, and likely don’t care to look at source material.
Yeah– the word ” …
Yeah– the word “Theory” has a very different meaning in academics & sciences. Words have different meanings. It doesn’t mean “speculation” or “hunch” as the USA vernacular seems to define it. ‘Theory” does not graduate to “fact.” It’s not a heirarchy. Theory explains facts, observations, etc (which are dime-a-dozen)
This lack of any basic understanding of scientific method indicates you are in fact not educated even in basic scientific thinking. That is why people are frustrated with you.
honestly i am …
honestly i am Christian, and i believe in god entirely. People have their thoughts on how we became to be as humans. I honestly like to learn from a multiple vantage point. I go to church and everything, but charlitunaman2002 you cannot prove anybody wrong unless you get their prospective too. Christianity is about loving, and following in gods path not using it as a weapon against others. Let them believe what they believe. god did not do that in the bible, so should’nt you be open and learn.
I’m angry about …
I’m angry about nothing. No one has yet to prove the theory beyond reasonable doubt. No fossil has yet to prove anything. Bible freak? You bet. Uneducated? I know well enough about the evidence, and if the evidence was that overwhelming, it wouldn’t still be a theory. The theory itself remains to this day, the same way it was when Darwin put it forth….a complete lack of any fossil evidence and a lack of living evidence
nice, hope one …
nice, hope one day we know if this happened too in one of the 600 millions planets (similars to our eath) in our little galaxy:::
hey guys we are part of the universe ok::!