BUSINESS INFORMATION - A team of international scientists this week reported that the ancient human skeleton

As reported by China News Agency, Xinhua, the journal also contains 11 files on these findings.

Fossil, which was given the nickname "Ardi", is the oldest frame is known from the human branch of the primate family tree. Branch includes Homosapiens and species closer to humans than to apes and bonobos.

The findings provide new understanding about how the "hominid" - a family "great apes" which consists of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans - may have come from a common ancestor of monkeys.

Until the discovery of "Ardi", the earliest stage is known about human evolution is "Australopithecus", "human ape" a small-brained, and fully two-legged living between four million and one million years ago.

Fossil "Australopithecus" the most famous is the "Lucy", who lived from 3.2 million years, which namaya from the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". "Lucy" discovered in 1974 in place about 45 miles from where "Ardi" later found.

Framework "Ardy" and frame "Ardipithecus ramidus", relating, older and more primitive than the "Australopithecus".

After finding "Lucy", there are estimates that when the framework of "hominid" found earlier, all it would assemble a chimpanzee-like anatomy, based on genetic similarity of human and ape. But fossil "Ardipithecus ramidus" does not support that allegation.

Framework "Ardi" quite complete - skull, teeth, pelvis, legs, thighs, arms and hands - to estimate the height and weight. "Ardi" walk on two feet on the ground, but climb a tree and also spent their time there, and perhaps the predator of all.

Something surprising is "Ardi" and his friend did not have the body like an ape or gorilla, but more like an extinct ape or monkey, and his hands did not look like a chimpanzee or gorilla hands, but more related to the previously extinct ape.

Many scientists say the findings show that "hominids" and african apes, respectively, have different evolutionary paths, and "we no longer consider dapt apes as` guardians `of the last common ancestor of us".

"The findings (Charles) Darwin is very wise on this issue," said Tim White of the University of California Berkeley, who helped lead the research team.

"Darwin says we should really be careful. The only way we will know what the last common ancestor of this and find it. Well, at 4.4 million years ago, we discovered something very close to it. And, just as Darwin's evolutionary line value apes and humans have walked the line separately from the line separately, since terakhri common ancestor we have, "said White.