24 November is reserved to Lucy
Lucy’, is the name given to a collection of fossilized bones that once made up the skeleton of a hominid from the Australopithecus afarensis species, who lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago.
One of the most important things about Lucy is the way she walked - by studying her bones, in particular the structure of her knee and spine curvature, scientists were able to discover that she spent most of her time walking on two legs - a striking human-like trait.
After making the historic find, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson headed back to his campsite with his team.
He put a Beatles cassette in the tape player, and when Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds came on, one of the group said he should call the skeleton Lucy.
"All of a sudden, she became a person," Johanson told the BBC.
Article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/who-is-lucy-the-australopithecus-afarensis-google-doodle-discovery-a6745696.html
Animation via Google Doodle.
#lucy #evolution #history #research
I just recently learned that they've found new fossils that show the form just before the Olduvai Gorge fossils (lucy et al) era. Another of those "missing link" species :-) Also, they're sure that the indo european tribes intermingled with neanderthals, rather than eliminated them.
ReplyDeleteThe doodle shows three stages of Lucy's evolution in place of 'oo' in the word Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vinHUMRF0Pw&list=PLK2ccNIJVPpAlYHL7UaTP5uUs6eux28ZG
ReplyDeleteGenetic drift - along with natural selection, mutation, and migration, is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution. Also you might want to take a look at coevolution Ivan Gomes de Albuquerque
ReplyDeleteOn this note, any comment that has at the base - gods, fairies and other spirits including Ra will be deleted...by me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkC7G8PbD0
ReplyDeleteLucy is not a missing link.
ReplyDeleteSee video above
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