Do you know who Lucy is and her significance?

Answer 1

If you are refering to an old find of an Australopithecus Afarensis specimen by Donald Johanson, her signficance is not actually considered that great - other than being a relatively early hominid. Afarensis and the australopithecines are not - at this time - considered to be on the direct line of ancestry to our species, which instead traveled through the Homo lineage (Habilis, Erectus, Antecessor, etc.)

Australopithecines persisted for a long time after the emergence of our lineage. They emerged from a common ancestor, but did not develop bipedalism in quite the same we did - where our lineage became hairless endurance runners with an efficient heat dissipation system, australopithecines occupied a niche more akin to upright chimps living in low density forest areas....

Answer 2

Lucy is the skeletal remains of a prehistoric woman called australiopithicus (I don't know if it is spelled right) The reason why she got the name is because the scientist that founds the fossils was listening to "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" at the time of the discovery.

Answer 3

A skeleton of an early ape - an Australopithecus specifically - that was once touted in the London museum as the missing link between apes and man. They took down the exhibit because Lucy can also be interpreted as just another example of an extinct ape. The evidence was simply not conclusive enough.

Answer 4

Lucy is the fossil remains of one of the many missing links, part of the Australopithicus group. Significant because it is an example of what we were inbetween ape and human.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/specimen.html#afarensis

AL 288-1, "Lucy", Australopithecus afarensis
Discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974 at Hadar in Ethiopia (Johanson and Edey 1981; Johanson and Taieb 1976). Its age is about 3.2 million years. Lucy was an adult female of about 25 years. About 40% of her skeleton was found, and her pelvis, femur (the upper leg bone) and tibia show her to have been bipedal. She was about 107 cm (3'6") tall (small for her species) and about 28 kg (62 lbs) in weight.

Answer 5

lets just for the sake of argument say that Lucy is in fact a missing link... 1 missing link??? Even if it was the 10th, I mean really!!!a gillion gazillion years have passed give or take a few zillion, and all that could be found is 10 or so missing links???!!!? evolution teaches that "all" creatures on earth including man have in fact evolved from a 1 celled organism that supposedly crawled out of some slime pit some where and all that has been found is 10 or so missing links...
Excuse me, but with all that evolving going on over the last zillion years we should be tripping over missing links! there would be so many there would be a hunting season 6 times a year with no limit just to get rid of a few million of them rascals!!!
~GOD BLESS ALL EVOLUTIONISTS WITH A REVELATION OF HIMSELF AMEN~

Answer 6

I Love Lucy. The actress?

Answer 7

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
The fossil?

Answer 8

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Answer 9

Only parts I learned it in college a loooong time ago . Her skeleton was found in Africa? and it proved the man ape link? because of the angel of her hip??? Maybe?? She was named Lucy because when the archaeologists got back to camp they were listening to a Beatles album>

Answer 10

You mean Sister Lucy of anthropological renown.
or
Linus' Sister ?
She still charge 5 cents for her Psych. sessions ?

Peace