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Early human ancestor Lucy 'died falling out of a tree'
BBC ^ | August 29, 2016 | Jonathan Webb

Posted on 08/29/2016 1:04:19 PM PDT by C19fan

New evidence suggests that the famous fossilised human ancestor dubbed "Lucy" by scientists died falling from a great height - probably out of a tree. CT scans have shown injuries to her bones similar to those suffered by modern humans in similar falls. The 3.2 million-year-old hominin was found on a treed flood plain, making a branch her most likely final perch. It bolsters the view that her species - Australopithecus afarensis - spent at least some of its life in the trees.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: afarensis; anthropology; australopithecus; godsgravesglyphs; lucy; palentology; paleontology
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To: DesertRhino
Lucy was a chimpanzee about 3 and a half feet tall. There are the merest handful of bones. It’s silly that people refer to this as human.

It was just a coinky-dink that Doanld Johnson just happened to make this discovery just days before his funding was scheduled to stop...

61 posted on 08/29/2016 2:42:06 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Seems the bones would have been gnawed on regardless if she was being pursued at the time by a predator. Could have happened at anytime after she had died, regardless of how she died. Must be a reason why her bones apparently weren’t chewed on by some animal at some point in time.


62 posted on 08/29/2016 2:42:51 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Puppage
Early human ancestor Lucy

May be your early ancestor; not mine!

Mine were in Scotland forever and ever!

63 posted on 08/29/2016 4:04:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: C19fan

But before she died, it was funny as hell watching her try to gat chocolate on all those conveyor belt candies.

By the way... what on Earth was she doing up in a tree?


64 posted on 08/29/2016 4:12:58 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3464066/posts?page=57#57


65 posted on 08/29/2016 4:15:05 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ETL

Lucy and Ricky, sittin’ in a tree...


66 posted on 08/29/2016 4:33:54 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: DesertRhino

You said it.


67 posted on 08/29/2016 4:34:38 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Boogieman

Good point!


68 posted on 08/29/2016 4:35:20 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Boogieman

Must you emulate Sir William of Ockham?


69 posted on 08/29/2016 4:36:28 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Smittie

Evolution is not even a theory: It is a patchwork quilt of unverifiable hypotheses. (Micro-evolution - for lack of a better term - is, on some level, valid, but macro-evolution is an unsubstantiated delusion.)

A theory can be tested, replicated, and can consistently produce verifiable extrapolations.

They cannot replicate it, and when they encounter something contrary to its prediction, they simply sew a new patch into the quilt.

As a science major, I heard the biology professor say over and over, “Given time and chance, we are confident that...” [fill in the blank with the latest anomaly that so-called evolution cannot explain, but they trust will someday explain]. Those words in quotes are, verbatim, the ones he used throughout all discussions of evolution.

Those are the words of faith, not science.

The special treatment that evolution has gotten paved the way for other, more recent, perversions of hard science that appeal to humanist, anti-Christian folks in the vaunted sciences, especially so-called global cooling... I mean, global warming... I mean, climate change.


70 posted on 08/29/2016 4:50:38 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: C19fan

How about she died in a tree..then the body fell to the ground


71 posted on 08/29/2016 5:10:19 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: C19fan

Is the person who came up with idea getting paid for this brilliance ?


72 posted on 08/29/2016 5:14:20 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: YogicCowboy

The ironic thing is that believers in evolution have to have more faith than those who believe in God. Most of the time, they just turn out to be God haters.


73 posted on 08/29/2016 5:33:49 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: Jack Hammer
what on Earth was she doing up in a tree?

Ummmmm. Maybe finding food? I don't think farming was invented yet.

74 posted on 08/29/2016 6:31:33 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: C19fan

“Hey, Grunk, is that woman stuck in that tree? Should we help her get down?”

“Nah. In all your years, have you ever seen a woman’s skeleton in a tree?”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right.”

A million years later, they were still right.


75 posted on 08/29/2016 6:34:58 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: lizma2

Apparently she was chatting with Ricky: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3464066/posts?page=57#57


76 posted on 08/29/2016 6:44:13 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

LOL!

I grew up watching Lucy and loved her. But I’d rather fall out of tree getting food then Ricky!!!! ... Maybe.


77 posted on 08/31/2016 6:35:11 PM PDT by lizma2
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This topic was posted 8/29/2016, thanks C19fan.

78 posted on 06/15/2023 9:43:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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