Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus, was 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than “Lucy,” then the oldest known human ancestor. In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White-”the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology”-uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia’s Afar region. "A rip-roaring tale, Fossil Me n is one of those rare books that can be a prism through which to view the world, exposing the fabric of the Earth and illuminating the Tree of Life." - New York Times bestselling author Peter NicholsĪ behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of “Ardi,” a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution.
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