For the past fifty years, anthropologists have had a traditional view that our ancestors arose or started to walk bipedality in the grassy savannas of Africa. This viewpoint got put to the test when a fossil was founded that showed a creature walking upright in an intermediate way living in the woodlands. This fossil that was discovered is named Ardipithecus ramidus (A. ramidus ) or Ardi for short. Ardi dates back to 4.4 million years ago and is thought to be one of the earliest hominins known to mankind. Ardipithecus ramidus had to brain size of a chimpanzee, was not using tools (as seen by the record), and had a divergent big toe. This week in our Human Evolution class, we read an article on Ardipithecus ramidus and then were asked to read another article on our own reading this hominin species. I will be discussing the article that I read this week regarding Ardipithecus ramidus called “Taphonomic, Avian, and Small Vertebrate Indicators of Ardipithecus ramidus Habitat”. This artic...