<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e549f7cc-6319-42f5-af68-2d3fcdb48e2f/2CD77276-DAF4-4CF9-A535-C66DA8C6ECFD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp" href="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp" style="font-size: 11px;">ideas.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp"><H2 class="entry-title">Ardi: Whatever We Want Her to Be</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp"><P><EM>Today’s idea: Ardi, family girl? The hominid found to have lived 4.4 million years ago in Africa is looking like another of science’s Rorschach tests, “on which particular points of view can be agreeably projected,” an anthropologist says. </EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/img/BBE0B347-B7FE-42F7-A483-EE7D80B8A7FF" alt="DESCRIPTION" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp"><P><STRONG>Archaeology |</STRONG> The “moral coding” of our presumed newest oldest ancestor has already begun, says Lionel Tiger, a Rutgers anthropology professor <A href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/06/new-human-ancestor-ardi-ethiopia-opinions-contributors-lionel-tiger.html">writing</A> for Forbes. He’s referring to the raft of newly published research (not to mention a <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/arts/television/10ardi.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Ardi&st=cse">TV documentary</A>) about Ardi, the 110-pound, 4-foot female found to have roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/ardi-whoever-we-want-her-to-be/?hp">Of course, creationists will dismiss the fossil skeleton as “another irritating inconvenience for their choir,” writes Tiger. Yet others of a more scientific bent are wishfully extrapolating, for example, that Ardi’s smallish teeth point to less aggressive males in the species and perhaps more attentive fathers. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2CD77276-DAF4-4CF9-A535-C66DA8C6ECFD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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