The team would give the new hominid the name Ardipithecus ramidus. (Ardi means "ground" or "floor" in Afar, and ramid, "root.")

该研究小组将这种新的古人类命名为地猿始祖种（Ardipithecus ramidus）(Ardi在阿法尔语中有“地面”或“地板”的意思，ramid则有“根”的意思）。

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Fossil hunters first glimpsed the new species in 1992 when a tooth belonging to Ardipithecus was spotted among pebbles in the desert near Aramis.

化石猎人首次得以瞥见这个新物种是在1992年，当时他们在阿拉米斯村附近沙漠的砾石中发现了一颗属于阿迪猿系猿人的牙齿。

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The female, named Ardi by the researchers who worked on her, belongs to a new species Ardipithecus ramidus and may be the earliest human ancestor ever discovered that was capable of walking upright.

研究员们给这名女性起名叫阿迪（Ardi），阿迪属于一个名为阿迪猿科分支（Ardipithecus ramidus）的新物种，她可能是迄今为止发现的能直立行走的最早的人类祖先。

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And it turns out that,no, Ardipithecus was designed for walking in trees or climbing trees."

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That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

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Foot bones from the species Ardipithecus ramidus and Ardipithecus kadabba have features diagnostic of bipedalism.

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