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Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:35 pm
by Minimalist
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... by_Big_Man
An older guy has sauntered into Lucy’s life, and some researchers believe he stands ready to recast much of what scientists know about the celebrated early hominid and her species.
Excavations in Ethiopia’s Afar region have uncovered a 3.6-million-year-old partial male skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis. This is the first time since the excavation of Lucy in 1974 that paleoanthropologists have turned up more than isolated pieces of an adult from the species, which lived in East Africa from about 4 million to 3 million years ago.
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:28 am
by kbs2244
Lucy!!!!
You got some splainen to do!!!
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:34 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
kbs2244 wrote:Lucy!!!!
You got some splainen to do!!!
Like what?
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:46 am
by kbs2244
“An older guy has sauntered into Lucy’s life”
That is a re-occurring line from an old US TV show called “I Love Lucy”
Her various schemes were always falling apart and that was her husbands line when he found out about them.
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:38 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
a 3.6-million-year-old partial male skeleton
What's a
partially male skeleton...? Was it a guy with a DD cup?
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:17 pm
by Minimalist
Maybe he was missing a rib?
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:37 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Minimalist wrote:Maybe he was missing a rib?
How does that make him less masculine?
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:39 pm
by Minimalist
Emphasizing the partial "skeleton" not the partial "male."
You remember what Ish said about the way these stories are edited.
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:26 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Minimalist wrote:Emphasizing the partial "skeleton" not the partial "male."
The syntax used means "partially male", not "partial skeleton".
It'd be nice if they used proper English syntax.
Re: Lucy!!!!!
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:47 pm
by dannan14
Rokcet Scientist wrote:Minimalist wrote:Emphasizing the partial "skeleton" not the partial "male."
The syntax used means "partially male", not "partial skeleton".
It'd be nice if they used proper English syntax.
Where'd you pull that from RS? It reads perfectly and obviously as partial skeleton.