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Early human ancestor Lucy 'died falling out of a tree'
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| August 29, 2016
| Jonathan Webb
Posted on 08/29/2016 1:04:19 PM PDT by C19fan
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:04:19 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
If Lucy fell out of a tree in the forest,
would anybody hear it? How about if she
were in the sky with diamonds?
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:06:09 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(The trouble is, you think you have time.)
To: C19fan
Was she on LSD?
She got the name because the paleontologists who found her skeleton had a tape of the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and named her for Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
To: C19fan
“I can climb that tree just as well as you can, probably better.”
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:06:59 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: C19fan
Not good a climbing, fail.....................
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:07:15 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: Verginius Rufus; sparklite2
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:07:28 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:07:31 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: C19fan
Purety boojit !
Lucy was the ancestor of the modern "identification sect" popular today !
Lucy identified with orangutans and aspired to BE one, so she disobeyed her parents' warning and climbed a tree anyway and guess what?
She fell out of the tree and killed herself.
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:08:12 PM PDT
by
knarf
To: C19fan
Maybe she was killed by the other guy who was already in the tree...
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:08:17 PM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Steely Tom
Hold muh be{e}r-ries moment?
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:08:50 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: C19fan
Charlie Brown pushed her.
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:10:02 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Our security has been hacked, media and politicians bought off and we're being brainwashed.)
To: C19fan
She identified as a bird. Didn’t work out.
To: C19fan
” It bolsters the view that her species - Australopithecus afarensis - spent at least some of its life in the trees.”
I would suggest that the time spent ‘in trees’ was merely a defensive tactic to escape predators. She likely went way out on a limb trying to escape a tiger, and the limb broke.
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:11:33 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: C19fan
New evidence suggests... Pure conjecture and nonsense.
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:11:49 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(LL)
To: BipolarBob
Maybe she had too many chocolate bon-bons stuffed in her cheeks and lost her balance.
To: C19fan
Speculation presented as fact.
This is often misinterpreted as ‘journalism’ in our modern era...
A quote attributed to Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, “ There is no other profession lower in the Eyes of God than that of journalist!”
:^)
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:12:22 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
(d("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson))
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:14:25 PM PDT
by
ETL
(God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
To: C19fan
If A resembles B, is A a precursor of B? Does resemblance equal descent?
To: C19fan
She was trying to prove Newton’s Law of Gravity.
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posted on
08/29/2016 1:16:09 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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