Gen Suwa

[2] He worked with Berkeley anthropology professor Tim D. White and has continued to collaborate with him after graduate school.

[5] Within a year, sixteen more fossil specimens were found in the area, and in late 1994, a partial skeleton was located.

[7] In 2009, the hominid was determined to belong to its own species (Ardipithecus ramidus) and to be more than a million years older than Lucy.

[5] A special issue of the journal Science was published that year featuring 11 articles on various aspects of the research on Ardipithecus.

In 2016, Suwa and several associates - including archaeologist Yonas Beyene and paleontologist Berhane Asfaw, both from Ethiopia - determined that the teeth were about 8 million years old.