New Fossil Sheds Light On Lucy's Family Tree 89
I_am_sci_guy writes "A new fossil of an older, and presumably male, specimen of the same species as the famed Lucy indicates that A. afarensis may have walked and moved more like humans than was currently believed. The features of the unusually complete skeleton 'denote a nearly humanlike gait and ground-based lifestyle,' according to anthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team, who found the specimen they call 'Big Man' and published preliminary results online today at PNAS (abstract; full text requires subscription). The article includes plenty of viewpoints dissenting from the conclusion that A. afarensis walked, and possibly ran, like modern humans do."
Re:Biped (Score:2, Insightful)
In that case it also meant they could time-travel more than 60 million years into the past...
Creationism is NOT science (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Creationism is NOT science (Score:2, Insightful)