Why I’m skeptical about Lucy in the Skyfall
I have no trouble believing that Lucy might have fallen to her death. Why not? The Lucy skeleton has several features compatible with a lifetime of climbing,...
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Quote: Johanson on the thread of ancestry of Homo
Again from Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind today, Don Johanson describes his thoughts upon the question of whether to place the Hadar jaw remains (later at...
Quote: Johanson and Edey on why Lucy was not the holotype of Au. afarensis
From Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey, p. 288, a very good concise description of why Johanson and White did not choose...
Google Doodle commemorating Lucy’s 41st anniversary
Google today (November 24) is running a Google Doodle commemorating the 41st anniversary of the discovery of the famous “Lucy” skeleton of Australopithecus a...
Link: The girl with baboon in her spine
New Scientist reports on a presentation at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting, in which Marc Meyer and Scott Williams describe one of the vertebral elemen...
Lucy returns to public display in California
The Orange County Register covers the final exhibition of the famous “Lucy” skeleton in the United States, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California: “Fa...
The feet of Australopithecus afarensis
The australopithecines were several species of human relatives that lived in Africa between 5 million and 1.5 million years ago. One of the best-represented ...
Mooning hominins
Gretchen sends this link: MSNBC has a list of “Eight Great American Discoveries in Science”.
Mailbag: The Lucy exhibit
Well, my husband and I braved Times Square and went to the exhibit a week ago Sunday. The streets were packed, it was hot and humid -- and in the Discovery...
Fossil access editorial
The editors of Scientific American offer arguments for greater data and public access to fossils in their current (September 2009) issue: “Fossils for All: S...
Legacy hominids
Brian Switek reviews the “Lucy’s Legacy” exhibit, now in New York:
Profile: Paleo artist Viktor Deak
On the occasion of the Lucy exhibit going to New York, Donald McNeil, Jr., profiles artist and reconstructor Viktor Deak. Deak’s 78-foot mural of human evolu...
Lucy Seattle review
The NY Times has a review of the Pacific Science Center’s Lucy experience, which came to an end this week. They’re blaming the financial loss on Obama:
Don Johanson interview
Alan Boyle, who writes the “Cosmic Log” feature for MSNBC, has a long interview with Don Johanson. It’s a nice read, which touches on many paleoanthropologic...
Lucy scans
Reuters has a little story about CT scans of Lucy, done at the University of Texas by John Kappelman and colleagues:
Lucy exhibit a loser for Seattle
Has Lucy become a white elephant for museums?
Mysteries of A. afarensis
In honor of Lucy’s move to Seattle, Alan Boyle has a piece at “Cosmic Log” about Lucy and A. afarensis</a:>. It has a lot of questions and few answers,...