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Kadanuumuu

Hominin fossil

Summary

Hominin fossil

Kadanuumuu ("Big Man" in the Afar language) is the nickname of KSD-VP-1/1, a 3.58-million-year-old partial Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in the Afar Region of Ethiopia in 2005 by a team led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Based on skeletal analysis, the fossil is believed to conclusively show that the species was fully bipedal.

At more than 5 ft in stature, Kadanuumuu is much taller than the famous Lucy fossil of the same species discovered in the 1970s, and is approximately 400,000 years older. Among other characteristics, Kadanuumuu's scapula, the oldest discovered to date for a hominid, is comparable to that of modern humans, suggesting that the species was land rather than tree-based. Not all researchers agree with this conclusion.

References

References

  1. "3.6 million-year-old relative of 'Lucy' discovered: Early hominid skeleton confirms human-like walking is ancient".
  2. Rex Dalton. (2010-06-20). "Africa's next top hominid: Ancient human relative could walk upright.". Nature.
  3. Ker Than. (2010-06-21). ""Lucy" Kin Pushes Back Evolution of Upright Walking?". National Geographic.
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