I was thinking of Maxine Waters. 
Posted on 08/28/2019 12:33:32 PM PDT by plain talk
It can be shown for the first time after a near complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis was found in Ethiopia.
The ape-like adult male was about 5ft and weighed about 100lbs.
Females were about 3ft 5in and around 62lbs.
An upper jaw was found first. Dr Yohannes Haile-Selassie, of Cleveland Museum of Natural History, told journal Nature: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted the rest.
"It was a dream come true.”
"This is a game changer in our understanding of human evolution during the Pliocene."
Professor Fred Spoor, an expert in anatomy at London's Natural History Museum, said the skull is "a great addition to the fossil record."
Prof Spoor, who was not involved in the study, added: "This cranium looks set to become another celebrated icon of human evolution."
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Lumpers vs splitters.
I’m not inclined to pick a side on this one yet.
What did Slick think of her?
The space aliens must have been hard up if they were tappin that.
A very wide face from such a narrow skull.
No. A chimp from the waist up, maybe, but the arm bones were human like (much longer, in proportion to a chimp, gorilla or orangutan—human proportioned), and she had a definitive pelvis and long human legs with kneecaps, ending in flat human feet.
What ever Lucy was, she wasn’t a chimp.
Dr. Don Johanson recovered almost all of her skeleton.
I stand corrected as to how much of the individual specimen Lucy’s remain were found, however, several of these creatures were found together at one site, having gone through some catastrophe (flash flood or perhaps volcanic ash flow).
As follows:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australopithecus/Australopithecus-afarensis-and-Au-garhi#ref865755
The main fossil sample of this species also comes from Hadar, and the specimens found there include a 40-percent-complete skeleton of an adult female (“Lucy”) and the remains of at least nine adults and four juveniles buried together at the same time (the “First Family”). The animal fossils found in association with Au. afarensis imply a habitat of woodland with patches of grassland.
Add in some clusters of nose hairs and lighter skin, it’s a dead ringer for my ex.
Named Mooch
I saw that guy at the fishing pier yesterday morning...
I was thinking of Maxine Waters.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
___DON’T google “simian smirk”!
Bttt
If it was George Burns, that skull would have a cigar sticking out of its mouth.
Since it is soft tissue, we have no way of knowing if the human eye has changed from what it was like 3.8 mya. One interesting feature of the modern eye is that around age 40 it begins to be more far sighted. This would be useful to help less mobile elders see danger clearly at a further distance so they can escape or move from danger. I used to be VERY nearsighted. Now I am only slightly nearsighted and may try to get me next drivers license without the glasses requirement.
I also wrote the answer below to someone at the original story who commented that they didn’t believe that evolution could move a creature from ape to human over millions of years.
“Out of many perfect cell division that take place, once in a great while a mutation takes place. With enough time and enough mutations, you eventually end up with something that is a little different from the original. For example, probably less than 10,000 years ago, some people from central Asia had a mutant gene that enabled them to drink milk well after childhood. This ability enabled them to drive their way into Central Europe and outsurvive the original population. This mutation became very common quite rapidly in the people who are now Europeans. It was a strong advantage to be able to drink milk during bitter winter weather, so a lot more lactose tolerant people survived than those who were not.”
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