Wed 5/18 @ 7PM
Who’s the oldest human? “Lucy”? Nope. It’s “Kadanuumuu,” a male 400,000 years older than Lucy. Learn about him @ the next Curator’s Forum Lecture Series @ CMNH.
Details: Since the early 1970s, the discovery of “Lucy” and her relatives established Australopithecus afarensis as the earliest known human ancestor, at 3 to 3.4 million years old. The skeletal morphology and size of this species was well understood, largely based on “Lucy’s” partial skeleton. The discovery of “Kadanuumuu” at the Woranso-Mille site in Ethiopia changed this. Male and 400,000 years older than “Lucy,” “Kadanuumuu” and his remains represent the oldest partial skeleton assigned to Australopithecus afarensis. Dr. Haile-Selassie [pictured] will explain what new data “Kadanuumuu” has yielded, showing that advanced human-like walking is older than previously thought.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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