How can you insult our intelligence and try to use "Lucy" as exhibit
"A" for
you style of paleo diet? According to the Dictionary of Scientific
Literacy,
"Australopithecus, meaning southern ape, was a short, small-brained
creature
with a snoutlike face, who walked errect. How can you ignore the
3+ million years of evolution that came after Lucy?

Mark

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Subject: [P-F] Lucy seen


I have seen Lucy.
I mean the real one.
The 3.2 mio years old skeleton of an early hominid.
Possibly our grandmother to the power of 160,000.

I happened to be at the world exposition in Hannover and
there is an Aethiopian building and there she is.

Well she was - kind of charming.

And she was veeery small. Like my boys at the age of 6 or so.
So small bones. Her forearms not longer than the span of my hand.
Of size somehow like a chimp. But standing upright.
Easy to imagine how she could have walked upright.

Looking at her...
I don't know if she was "Lucy at the fireplace with Tuuubers"
(Beatles).
But I'm shure:
This human creature has *never* hunted an elephant, zebra, or anything
able to run.

...charming, that Lucy...
...she had real paleodiet all life, for shure....
...

cheers

Amadeus S.