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	Orrorin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The name was given by the discoverers who found Orrorin fossils near the village of Tugen, Kenya, and dated them to approximately 6 million years ago.
		Pickford claims that Orrorin is clearly a hominid; based on this, he dates the split between hominids and other African great apes to at least 7 million years ago.
		If Orrorin proves to be a human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis (including "Lucy") would be on a side branch of the hominid family tree: Orrorin is both earlier, by 1.5 million years, and more similar to us than A.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Orrorin (274 words)

	Orrorin tugenensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orrorin tugenensis is an extinct species of hominin that is closely related to humans and is the only species classified in genus Orrorin.
		The name was given by the discoverers who found Orrorin fossils near the village of Tugen, Kenya and dated them to approximately 6 million years ago in the Miocene.
		Pickford claims that Orrorin is clearly a hominin; based on this, he dates the split between hominins and other African great apes to at least 7 million years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orrorin (307 words)

	Orrorin tugenensis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Orrorin tugenensis is an (additional info and facts about extinct) extinct ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species of (additional info and facts about hominin) hominin that is closely related to (Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae) humans and is the only species classified in genus Orrorin.
		Pickford claims that Orrorin is clearly a hominin; based on this, he dates the split between hominins and other African (Any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae) great apes to at least 7 million years ago.
		If Orrorin proves to be a human ancestor, (Fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago) Australopithecus afarensis (including "Lucy") would be on a side branch of the hominid family tree: Orrorin is both earlier, by 1.5 million years, and more similar to us than A.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orrorin_tugenensis.htm (293 words)

	ORRORIN TUGENENSIS ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC
		Pickford claims that ''Orrorin'' is clearly a hominin; based on this, he dates the split between hominins and other African great_apes to at least 7 million years ago.
		Other fossils found in these rocks show that ''Orrorin'' lived in a wooded environment, not the savanna assumed by many theories of human_evolution and, in particular, the origins of bipedalism.
		If ''Orrorin'' proves to be a human ancestor, ''Australopithecus_afarensis'' (including "Lucy") would be on a side branch of the hominid family tree: ''Orrorin'' is both earlier, by 1.5 million years, and more similar to us than ''A. afarensis''.
	www.agseinc.com /Orrorin_tugenensis (290 words)

	Orrorin Tugenensis
		The upper central incisor is large and robust, the upper canine is large for a hominid and retains a narrow and shallow anterior groove, the lower fourth premolar is ape-like, with offset roots and oblique crown, and the molars are relatively small, with thick enamel." (Senut et al., 2001).
		Many scholars have considered that the earliest hominids were small animals; the femur and humerus of Orrorin are 1.5 times larger than those of AL 288.1, probably equivalent in size to a female common chimpanzee, indicating that the ancestor may have been larger than previously envisaged." (Senut et al., 2001).
		The authors conclude that on the basis of dental and postcranial morphology, it appears that Orrorin belongs to the hominid lineage, which was already present 6 million years ago.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /ep/Orrorin.html (1134 words)

	Fast Breaking Comment by Martin Pickford
		Orrorin tugenensis is a 6 million year old bipedal hominid with several ape-like features of the front teeth, jaw, humerus and finger bone, but with more human-like features of the back teeth, mandibular symphysis, and leg bones.
		The fact that Orrorin is found with other fauna that indicates a wooded to forested environment, tends to refute the "savannah" hypothesis of human origins.
		Furthermore, in some features of the dentition and femora, Orrorin is more human-like than any of the australopithecines (Lucy and her kin) which raises the possibility that australopithecines are a side branch of hominid evolution that went extinct without issue about 1.5 Ma.
	www.esi-topics.com /fbp/comments/december-01-Martin-Pickford.html (820 words)

	Fast Breaking Comment by Dr.Brigitte Senut
		The age of this first hominid is equivalent to or older than the age estimated by molecular biologists for the ape/human divergence; it thus suggests that the divergence is older than thought and that the "molecular clock" is far from running on time.
		Orrorin is significantly different from the classic Australopithecines in the gracility of its teeth, but also in the morphology of the postcranial bones, although it was a biped.
		The fauna associated with Orrorin is dominated by impalas and colobine monkeys, which suggests the presence of trees; but it was not a closed forest, but more a wooded environment.
	www.esi-topics.com /fbp/comments/december-01-Brigitte-Senut.html (968 words)

	Orrorin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The name was given by the discoverers who found Orrorin fossils near the village of Tugen, Kenya, and dated them toapproximately 6 million years ago.
		Pickford claims that Orrorin is clearly a hominid; based on this, he dates thesplit between hominids and other African great apes to at least 7 million years ago.
		If Ororin proves to be a human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis (including "Lucy") would be on a side branch of the hominidfamily tree: Orrorin is both earlier, by 1.5 million years, and more similar to us than A.
	www.therfcc.org /orrorin-21544.html (256 words)

	Eldest Man?
		However, they also claim that their Orrorin is a direct ancestor of man. They reposition Ardipithecus ramidus, which is now thought by many in the scientific community to be the first known human ancestor, to the position of ancestor of the African apes (Aiello and Collard: 527).
		Orrorin is quite a bit closer in time to that point, and the specimen may give us clues as to how and why the two groups separated in the first place.
		Orrorin is remarkable because it is a very old hominin – it is very close to the time when the human branch split off from the African ape branch.
	www.msu.edu /~camero48/ANP202HF.html (1633 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		There's a big gap between Orrorin and homo, but right in the middle of that gap, there is an animal known as prae africanus.
		Orrorin really is associated with the 6 million year old sedement in four different localities.
		The creme on the bun as it were was the discovery of Orrorin's skeleton.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/02/tv_secretsofdead051002.htm (3151 words)

	Orrorin tugenensis - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Orrorin tugenensis ("Original man") is an extinct hominid species which may be a common ancestor of modern humans and chimpanzees.
		The species is known from fossils of the lower jaw, teeth, digits and arm bones, and partial remains of a femur, discovered by Pickford and Senut in the Tugen Hills of Kenya in 2001.
		The canines are large and molars small, and the teeth had thick enamel, suggesting an omnivorous diet or hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Orrorin_tugenensis (169 words)

	Secrets of the Dead . Search for the First Human \| PBS
		Today, Orrorin is unleashing one of the greatest controversies the study of human origins has ever seen.
		If Martin and Brigitte find these clues and Orrorin was, indeed, walking on two legs six million years ago, scientists will have to rethink their ideas about how we split from the apes.
		The fossils from Orrorin have led Martin and Brigitte to the revolutionary conclusion that Lucy and her type, the australopithicines, were not our direct ancestors: rather, they were a branch that became extinct.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_firsthuman (332 words)

	Orrorin tugenensis - Wikipedia
		Fossil „orrorin“ und nach dem Fundort „Orrorin tugenensis“.
		Weitere Funde in der Umgebung zeigten, dass diese Spezies ein Waldbewohner war und nicht - wie bisher angenommen - in der Savanne zu leben hätte, was ja nach der Evolutionstheorie erst den aufrechten Gang erklärt.
		Daraus schloss man, dass Orrorin in die menschliche Entwicklungslinie gehört und vielleicht sogar der Vorfahr der Australopithecinen war.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millenium-Mann (258 words)

	Television: Millennium Man on Prime Time
		But what is rewarding about this intelligent, yet flawed documentary, viewed by this reviewer in rough cut, is that much unpublished information about the discovery of the so-called Millennium Man ("Ancient Ancestors?" July/August 2001) is disclosed in a generally sensible manner, with only a few wild claims and out-of-context quotes from scientists.
		Known formally as Orrorin tugenensis, this set of fossil remains of an early hominid-like creature was recovered in Kenya in 2000, hence its name.
		CT-scans of the Orrorin femur show its internal structure, which appears to support the bipedal interpretation, and scans of the molar teeth show a thick, humanlike enamel.
	www.archaeology.org /0205/reviews/millennium.html (587 words)

	ENSI/SENSI Papers & Articles:Hominid News
		Molar size is small relative to body size in Chimps, Ardipithecus and Orrorin (suggesting a diet of fruit and leaves) and again in H.
		Canines in chimps and Orrorin are large, sharpened,and V shaped but smaller and diamond shaped in Ardipithecus and more advanced forms (smallest in Homo).
		Orrorin and Homo both have small molars relative to their bigger bodies, unlike Australopithecus.
	www.indiana.edu /~ensiweb/paphom.c.html (1012 words)

	Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
		But now, the details of the Orrorin discovery are rocking the world of paleoanthropology, because the new find may allow us to trace our evolution more than twice as far back as Lucy.
		Orrorin is a discovery that could revolutionize the story of human evolution.
		Orrorin's age and bipedal characteristics are a boon for Pickford and Senut, who have formulated a radical new theory that bipedalism actually developed in the trees long before Lucy's kind roamed the earth, not in the open savannah as has been previously postulated.
	www.thirteen.org /pressroom/release.php?get=248 (913 words)

	Orrorin tugenesis
		"Orrorin" means means "original man" in Tugen, and the specific name "tugenensis" refers to the Tugen Hills locality where the material was discovered.
		If the Orrorin femora belong to males it is unreasonable to make claims of a decline in body size in the australopithecine line.
		The size of the teeth is also extremely weak support, as tooth size increased in all African ape lineages over time, and shifts in diet is well within reason to describe a small increase and then a decrease in the line leading to modern humans.
	karmak.org /archive/2003/01/tugenensis.html (1997 words)

	The Religion of Vague
		Orrorin’s discoverers, Martin Pickford of the College de France and Brigitte Senut of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, claim that the creature was bipedal and thus the oldest human ancestor (hence its scientific name, which means “original man”).
		To claim that Orrorin was a hominid, protested Bernard Wood of George Washington University, you “have to rewrite human evolutionary history” (p.
		Responding to the Orrorin challenge, the ramidus team began a vigorous search for stronger evidence that their creature was truly the oldest human ancestor.
	www.rae.org /ramidusorrorin.html (576 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Fossils Suggest Earliest Human Ancestor
		Orrorin is 6 million years old, with teeth that are more apelike than those of Ardipithecus but a thighbone similar to those of later human ancestors and bigger than Lucy's.
		Haile-Selassie said Ardipithecus, with its large molars and upright walking, leans "much more to the hominid [human ancestor] side than the chimpanzee side," while Orrorin has the "canine [tooth] of an ape" and a thighbone that is not "compelling" evidence of a human characteristic.
		Senut said that the toe bone cited by Haile-Selassie as evidence of upright walking is "basically a climbing adaption," while Orrorin's teeth are "small and square-shaped, just like modern humans," and that new evidence shows the Orrorin thighbone has definite human characteristics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A47640-2001Jul11?language=printer (957 words)

	In the News: On the Trail of a Few More Ancestors
		Orrorin means "original man" in the local dialect.
		At an age of 6 million years, it could be one of the first hominids living after their split from other lineages leading to apes.
		Bipedality, walking upright on two legs, is considered a defining characteristic of hominids, so whether Orrorin could do so is the point of sharpest dispute among scientists.
	www.arn.org /docs2/news/ancestors040801.htm (1170 words)

	Toumaï : Toumaï phylogenetic relationships: implications
		Comparisons with Orrorin (6 Myrs) are difficult because of the fragmentary condition of the available cranio-dental material of the latter.
		However, Orrorin and Toumaï are quite distinct, upper canine of the former being more similar to those of a female chimpanzee.
		Toumaï, the earliest known hominid, could be considerate as the ancestor of all later hominids, i.e.
	www.cnrs.fr /cw/fr/pres/compress/Toumai/Tounaigb/lienparengb.html (181 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Orrorin" means "original man" in Tugen, and the specific name "tugenensis" refers to the Tugen Hills where the material was discovered.
		Orrorin had little time to notice the large, leopard-like creature attacking it from behind, and became prey.
		Most of the Orrorin's bones were found near the foot of the cliff, near the old lake's edge, a site called Kapsomin.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2002/07/14/lifestyle/travel/travel01.asp (1509 words)

	Wort und Wissen Studium Integrale Journal 8. Jg. / Heft 2 (Oktober 2001)
		Da der Oberschenkel von Orrorin um 50% größer gewesen sein muß als Lucys, könnte auch die Körpergröße an die 1,50 m gewesen sein, was ein gängiges Bild über die kleine Statur früher Hominiden zu stürzen droht.
		Orrorin könne genauso ein Vorfahre des Schimpansen oder ein ausgestorbener miozäner Menschenaffe sein (David BEGUN in BALTER 2001).
		Aus der Sicht der Grundtypbiologie kann Kenyanthropus platyops in den Grundtyp der Australomorphen eingereiht werden.
	www.wort-und-wissen.de /sij/sij82/sij82-7.html (1544 words)

	DARWINISM-WATCH.com - Responding Evolutionist Propaganda in the Media
		The 12 small bones making "Orrorin tugenensis," claimed by some researchers to have walked upright and to be the ancestor of man by Die Zeit.
		Orrorin tugenensis is a species reliant on 12 small fossilized items, which were discovered by researchers Martin Pickford (College de France) and Brigitte Senut (National History Of Nature Museum, Paris) who claimed that this was an upright walking species.
		However this view did not even gain much acceptance among evolutionists, most of whom consider it to be impossible for this species to have walked upright.
	www.darwinism-watch.com /die_zeit_030329.php (1794 words)

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