The Ardi Saga: the epic feud over our oldest known human ancestor
Nine To Noon
English - November 05, 2020 21:07 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Journalist Kermit Pattison has spent 10 years investigating and writing, 'Fossil Men', about the discovery of the 4.4 million-year-old bones of Ardi, thought to be the oldest known skeleton of a human ancestor. It's a tale of scientific discovery, obsession and professional feuding which centered around whether humans were descended from an ancestor that resembled today's chimpanzee.