Ardipithecus ramidus has been named Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year. At 4.4 million years old, Ardi is the oldest hominid skeleton. This fall, a series of 11 papers about Ardi and her paleoenvironment were published in Science. UCMP Faculty Curator and Human Evolution Research Center (HERC) director Tim White was one of the lead scientists on the project, which involved an international team of researchers, including UCMP Faculty Curator Leslea Hlusko. To learn more about Ardi, Breakthrough of the Year, read this article in today’s issue of Science, watch this video, also on Science’s website, and read this article on BBC news. For more links and more info on the discovery of Ardi, visit the UCMP’s previous blog post.