{"id":5936,"date":"2009-10-03T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/and-ardi-was-maybe-monogamous.html"},"modified":"2009-10-03T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T14:03:49","slug":"and-ardi-was-maybe-monogamous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/and-ardi-was-maybe-monogamous.html","title":{"rendered":"And Ardi was (maybe) Monogamous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ardi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Ardi.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"289\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<p>Did you see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/1001\/p02s21-usgn.html\">new report about the piece in Science<\/a>? Anyone read the article and have anything to add or say?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;font-weight: inherit;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;vertical-align: top;line-height: 1.7em\"><i>Scientists in Ethiopia have found a 4.4 million year old human predecessor that promises to upend long-held notions of what the common ancestor of African apes and humans looked like, how it lived, and how much both lineages have evolved since diverging.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.1em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;font-weight: inherit;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;vertical-align: top;line-height: 1.7em\"><i>The species, called Ardipithecus ramidus, is one million years older than &#8220;Lucy,&#8221; the famous partial female skeleton of a hominid that lived 3.2 million years ago and was previously the closest scientists had come to finding the common ancestor of apes and humans. 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