[Coyoteman]

[Lucy] You have to admit... She is much better looking in the artist renderings.

I actually like bones. I did a lot of years in grad school working with all manner of human and fossil bones; with several classes in evolution, human races, osteology, primates, advanced osteology, anatomy, even animal bones.

I prefer them to be clean and dry, however. Two or three thousand years is just about right.

[furball4paws]

Aw, c'mon C-man. If you were offered the opportunity to go and dig in the hot spot of Africa, I think I'd hear your bags packing from the hundreds of miles that separate us.

[pby]

So what is your take on Lucy?

I have read that she was a small primate with rickets/arthritis, or something in that vein and that she was not peer-reviewed until several years after her discovery.

You know...Bones of Contention.

[pby]

Also, given your educational background and experience, what is your take on the Hominid fossil KP 271...4.4 million years old with a fully modern humerus bone?

"The humeral fragment from Kanopoi, with a date of about 4.4 million years, could not be distinguished by Patterson and myself in 1967 (or by much more searching and analysis by others since then). We suggest that it might represent Australpithecus because at that time allocation Homo seemed proposterous, although it would be the correct one without the time element".(Bones of Contention, Lubenow, Dec. 1992, pp. 56-57)