Editing Ardipithecus (section)

== ''Ardipithecus kadabba'' ==
{{Main|Ardipithecus kadabba}}
[[Image:Ardipithecus kadabba fossils.jpg|thumb|250px|''Ardipithecus kadabba'' fossils]]
''Ardipithecus kadabba'' is "known only from teeth and bits and pieces of skeletal bones",<ref name="NewKind">{{cite journal |last=Gibbons |first=Ann |date=2009-10-02 |title=A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/211155/files/PAL_E4410.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Science |volume=326 |issue=5949 |pages=36–40 |bibcode=2009Sci...326...36G |doi=10.1126/science.326_36 |pmid=19797636 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://doc.rero.ch/record/211155/files/PAL_E4410.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09}}</ref> and is dated to approximately 5.6 million years ago.<ref name="AndThePaleobiology"/> It has been described as a "probable [[chronospecies]]" (i.e. ancestor) of ''A. ramidus''.<ref name="AndThePaleobiology"/> Although originally considered a subspecies of ''A. ramidus'', in 2004 anthropologists [[Yohannes Haile-Selassie]], [[Gen Suwa]], and [[Tim D. White]] published an article elevating ''A. kadabba'' to species level on the basis of newly discovered teeth from [[Ethiopia]]. These teeth show "primitive morphology and wear pattern" which demonstrate that ''A. kadabba'' is a distinct species from ''A. ramidus''.<ref name="MioceneTeeth">{{cite journal |last1=Haile-Selassie |first1=Yohannes |author-link=Yohannes Haile-Selassie |last2=Suwa |first2=Gen |author-link2=Gen Suwa |last3=White |first3=Tim D. |author-link3=Tim D. White |year=2004 |title=Late Miocene Teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and Early Hominid Dental Evolution |journal=Science |volume=303 |issue=5663 |pages=1503–5 |bibcode=2004Sci...303.1503H |doi=10.1126/science.1092978 |pmid=15001775 |s2cid=30387762}}</ref>

The specific name comes from the [[Afar language|Afar]] word for "basal family ancestor".<ref name="EllisNTB">{{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Ellis (biologist) |title=No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species|url= https://archive.org/details/noturningbacklif00elli |url-access=registration |publisher=Harper Perennial |date=2004 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/noturningbacklif00elli/page/92 92] |isbn =978-0-06-055804-8 }}</ref>