Ardipithecus
| Ardipithecus Temporal range: Pliocene
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| Genus: | Ardipithecus White et al., 1995
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Ardipithecus is a very early human of the genus, which lived about 4.4 million years ago during the early Pliocene.
Because this genus shares several traits with the African great ape genera (genus Pan and genus Gorilla), it is considered by some to be on the chimpanzee rather than human branch, but most consider it a proto-human because of a likeness in teeth with Australopithecus.
