Re: aquarboreal ape fossil found (Re: "Lucy's Baby": pre-human fossil dazzles scientists

"Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Lucy's Baby": pre-human fossil dazzles scientists
Human-like below the waist, ape-like above, an ancient child is
galvanizing the study of our origins.

"Pre-ape fossil" they mean?

Don't think so.

AFAICS there's nothing uniquely human in it: no large brain, no long legs,
no external nose...

How about the characters related to bipedalism, the most
distinguishing feature of the human clade?

Apelike skull, small brain, curved phalanges for arm-hanging...
Fossil-hunters see everywhere human ancestors, no wonder they claim no ape
ancestors have been found yet.

http://www.world-science.net

Thanks a lot, Nebula.
As all other apith fossils found in shallow water, wetlands, river delta,
lakeside...

Laetoli?

Gerrit
.

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