Ardipithecus kadabba

We all know Ardi.

And fossils of the five-point-eight-million-year-old Ardipithecus kadabba.

His list of finds also includes specimens from Australopithecus afarensis and more modern species of Homo, including Homo erectus.

So many branches of the human family tree.

That's so fascinating.

Is there something you dream of finding? Like, just where you're just, you're going out and you're like, "You know what I really want to find is this."

When I started this f- in this field, um, my dream was to find the earliest human ancestor, right? And I found Ardipithecus kadabba, which was great.

[laughs] And you did.