[SunkenCiv]

Workflow diagram outlining the process for the study

Ashleigh Wiseman/University of Cambridge

• from the FRchives: Neanderthals walked upright just like the humans of today [02/25/2019]

[Nervous Tick]

model shows how Lucy was capable of upright, erect locomotion but also possessed powerful leg muscles

In other words, they're building "models" and presuming from them, but they don't really know sh!t about "Lucy". Who herself is a made-up entity to give her empathy and credibility.

[Zack Attack]

Luuuuucccyyyy! Somebody got some splainin to do.

[irishjuggler]

All that plus kaleidoscope eyes.

[mass55th]

So she looked like Big Mike Robinson.

[DannyTN]

Here's Lucy with Ethel, her best friend from the cave next door.

[DannyTN]

Here's Lucy with Ethel, her best friend from the cave next door.

[SteveH]

74% of mass in the legs implies to me mostly ambulatory on the ground, not arboreal. rock climbers typically need and have more well developed than usual arm muscles to help them climb.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Starting with human MRI and CT scans to map muscle pathways, Wiseman next focused on virtual reconstructions of Lucy’s bones and joints, and then married up cues from muscle “scarring” on the bones.”

Skeptical. Seems like a lot of extrapolation based on “human MRI and CT scans” and “reconstructions” from a few leg bone fragments.

https://www.donsmaps.com/images29/articulatedlucyp1140400.jpg

[Adder]

Prolly trans...

[jmcenanly]

Did they find out what it was that ripped her?

[maddog55]

Looks a lot like Big Mike.

[PIF]

They had amazing forest cities. Their libraries were very extensive, going back over one million years, but unfortunately, the writing was on bark scrolls and had to be reproduced every 100 years or so.

Then there was the forest fire during a drought, and there wasn’t enough water behind the dams to extinguish it. Most of the library was lost.

It was during this episode that Lucy lost her life in a heroic attempt to save her neighbor’s kids.

[PIF]

The only thing that was ripped was the article from the original. Which for many posters and their question can present answers not found in the ripped article posted.

Royal Society Open Science
Research articles
Three-dimensional volumetric muscle reconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and limb, with estimations of limb leverage
Ashleigh L. A. Wiseman
Published:14 June 2023

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230356

[Tommy Revolts]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But, Wait! According to modern “woke” thought you cannot tell the difference between a man and a woman! So how do we know LUCY was a female?

https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/woke-professor-denies-male-female-skeleton-differences/

Yes, I know we live in a time of perpetual silliness.