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Before there was Lucy, Ardi stood out, and up

Ho/AFP/Getty ImagesHow Ardi may have looked 4.4 million years ago. Ho/AFP/Getty ImagesHow Ardi may have looked 4.4 million years ago. (Ho/AFP/Getty Images)
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Globe Staff / October 2, 2009

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More than a hundred crushed fossil fragments unearthed in Ethiopia have been painstakingly pieced together to reconstruct “Ardi,’’ the earliest skeleton of a prehuman ever found. (Full article: 860 words)

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