KSU prof: Apes evolved from humans

KENT — A Kent State University professor of anthropology says we should throw out all those posters and books that depict an ape evolving into a human being.

C. Owen Lovejoy, an internationally recognized biological anthropologist who specializes in the study of human origins, is one of the primary authors who revealed their research findings Thursday on Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

“People often think we evolved from apes, but no, apes in many ways evolved from us,” Lovejoy said.

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