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.
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The tale goes like this....Lucy was going to meet with Tarze, the best looking dude in the cave...a real beast!! Jane knew their meeting place. As Lucy swung to "their" tree, Jane cut the vine.
And that's the real story of Tarze and Jane.
Hysterical!
“Wouldn’t the tiger (or whatever) simply have eaten her afterward?”
Well, since her body must have almost immediately been covered by a flood of mud in order to be fossilized, the tiger probably couldn’t find her :)
I almost died falling out of a tree. Early one morning in November about 40 years ago. I didn’t get a buck that year.
I was lucky to...never mind.
5.56mm
This has puzzled me for years, people as a whole do not mirror the theory.
This has puzzled me for years, people as a whole do not mirror the theory.
"...so I'm sitting in this tree,..just chilling....and these two snots come around and start yelling and pointin,..then these three old broads show up....one is making this noise like she has an air leak,one is clappin and the other just kept saying over and over "where is it"...and then this cop shows up and more snots following him...and their all screaming....the old lady "where is it"....then this fire truck arrives...oh goody..more snots...so then this guy puts this ladder up and almost knocks me off the branch...sheeeesh. ...then some cutie says " leave him alone he'll come down when he wants to" finally some sanity.....jeeeesh, will somebody take a photo and show it to "where is it" lady...get your big gloved hand off me,I'm not letting go....no I ain't going....aaaw chit"
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.
She was startled by Carlos Danger.
And, it's a joke, I don't need responses explaining the dichotomy of the evolutionary and historical timelines involved :-).
Was she K.I.S.S.I.N.G...?
Probably was texting or using a selfie stick while swinging from branch to branch.
Lucy just as likely was struck by the newly installed high speed rail locomotive coming around a bend.
Darwin Award candidate.
Wouldn't that same threat have had a meal consisting of the dead Lucy? I don't recall reports of the bones having been gnawed upon.
Human ancestor? You know, evolution has to be the stupidest theory ever thought up.
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