Breakthrough of the Year 2009: Ardipithecus ramidus

This video is an enhanced edition of our 2 October 2009 video introducing Ardipithecus ramidus -- a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from Ethiopia and this year's Breakthrough of the Year. In addition to interviews with Project Co-Director Tim White (University of California, Berkeley), Science correspondent Ann Gibbons, and paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill (Yale University), this edition features new footage with statements from Tim White, Project Co-Director Giday WoldeGabriel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and project researchers C. Owen Lovejoy (Kent State University), and Yohannes Haile-Selassie (Cleveland Museum of Natural History). Produced by Robert Frederick.

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