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Absence of organic material and a 50k time limit makes this form of dating inappropriate.
What is radiocarbon dating?
100
The Ardipithecus fossil was discovered in this country in Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
100
Ardipethicus boasts this form of locomotion.
What is bipedalism?
100
Ardi's skeleton features showed a closer resemblance to humans than to this other type of present primate.
What are Chimpanzees?
100
The team that discovered Ardi was from this school.
What is UC Berkeley? aww yeah
200
Ardipthicus' delicate fossil remains forced researchers to extract it with this material.
What is/are plaster (and aluminum jackets)?
200
Ardi's several million years places her in this period in the geological timescale.
What is the Pliocene epoch?
200
Ardpithecus' feet included this feature that is lacked in humans.
What is an opposable big toe? (arboreal grasping hallux)
200
Ardipithecus was roughly 110 pounds and this many feet tall.
What is roughly 4 feet?
200
The two species names of Ardipithecus.
What is A. kadabba and A. ramidus?
300
This dating method allowed us to discover ardipthicus' true age through examination of volcanic horizons.
What is Potassium Argon dating?
300
The Ardipithecus ramidus fossil are considered to be roughly this many years old.
What is 4.4 million?
300
The relative size of these anatomical parts explained a low level of sexual dimorphism.
What are canines?
300
Believed to be an ancestral trait of both humans and chimpanzees, this form of of locomotion was surprisingly not found in Ardipithecus.
What is Knuckle-walking?
300
The root meaning of greek term "-pithecus".
What is an ape?
400
Most of the restoration of Ardi's skull was done through this imaging technology.
What is micro-computed tomography? (micro-CT)
400
This lead paleoanthropologist was also famous for his work on Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis).
Who is Tim D. White?
400
Lack of specialization in the teeth have led us to believe that Ardipithecus had this type of diet.
What is an omnivorous diet?
400
The first A. ramidus fossil seventeen fragments including these bones. (name 2 of four)
What are skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones?
400
The meaning of "ardi" in the Afar language?
What is ground/floor?
500
Ardipithecus' delicate teeth prevented researchers from using this form of dating. (normally used on teeth)
What is electron spin resonance?
500
The year Ardiptheicus ramidus' first molar was discovered.
When was (december) 1992?
500
Swollen marginal ridges in the lower canines of Ardipithecus and Australopithecus are not typically found in this arching superfamily.
What are apes? (Hominoidea)
500
Unlike Australopithecus, Ardipithecus had this relative type of enamel thickness.
What is relatively thin enamel?
500
Ardipithecus' discovery was first published in this journal.
What is nature?