Could it be possible? Creationists??
2006-09-21 05:28:32 · 7 answers · asked by R.C.P. 3 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060920lucy,1,6959539.story?track=rss
2006-09-21 05:34:18 · update #1
Yes. Lucy bridged the gap between Charley Chaplain and Dick VanDyke.
2006-09-21 09:56:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is definitely a species which characteristics between tree dwellers like chimps and upright open land dwellers like humans. Whether they were ancestors to the Homo genus is yet to be determined - there are other species in about the same time frame which might have been the ancestor so this species might have been an evolutionary dead end - or they might discover more specimens and it will fit in as one of our ancestors. Nevertheless it is a very important find.
2006-09-21 12:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But then all of us are in transition. There is an article on Lucy and a child that has been found from that species recently on CNN.
2006-09-21 14:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by a_phantoms_rose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking, all species are transitional. That said, keep in mind that australopithecines were around for a longer amount of time than modern humans have been around. So they were probably well adapted to their environment, even if other evolutionary branches formed during their tenure on Earth.
2006-09-21 12:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by The Ry-Guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder how many people will mistake "Lucy" in this question for Lucille Ball.
I DO believe it is a species in transition, though.
2006-09-21 12:35:56 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ady_8e_80♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lucy was proved to be a hoax long ago, look it up instead of doing your research on yahoo answers.
2006-09-21 12:47:40 · answer #6 · answered by bandit 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Seems very unlikely, but the media have to grab our attention with such claims.
2006-09-21 13:51:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋