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24 Nov 15 02:31

wolfgang59

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3,200,041 years old today! 😀

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24 Nov 15 02:53

Originally posted by wolfgang59
3,200,041 years old today! 😀

how did you find her date of birth?

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24 Nov 15 02:55

Originally posted by wolfgang59
3,200,041 years old today! 😀

"Happy Birthday Lucy"

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24 Nov 15 03:00

Originally posted by lemondrop
how did you find her date of birth?

Presumably wolfgang59 was told Lucy was 3,200,000 years old 41 years ago.

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24 Nov 15 03:16

Lucy who?

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24 Nov 15 05:37

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Lucy who?

Lucy Australopithecus
That surname is a bit of a mouthful .... she'll be glad to get married!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

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24 Nov 15 05:40

Originally posted by FMF
Presumably wolfgang59 was told Lucy was 3,200,000 years old 41 years ago.

BINGO
Discovered 41 years ago and dated at 3.2 million years.

Gertrude

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24 Nov 15 06:51

was there enough of her for a forensic anthropologist to put a face on her remains?

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24 Nov 15 07:13

Originally posted by lemondrop
was there enough of her for a forensic anthropologist to put a face on her remains?

I don't think she was much of a looker.
(And there is some dispute as to "her" sex)

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24 Nov 15 07:22

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24 Nov 15 12:01

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Lucy Australopithecus
That surname is a bit of a mouthful .... she'll be glad to get married!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

She would probably marry a Heidelbergenisis.......

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24 Nov 15 14:55

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Lucy Australopithecus
That surname is a bit of a mouthful .... she'll be glad to get married!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

That's like the moon landing right, because we all, well some of "them", know that man/woman has only been on the earth for, what was it, 6 or 7 thousand years, give or take?

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24 Nov 15 21:46

Originally posted by The Gravedigger
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Found out yesterday that that is exactly where the name Lucy came from!

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25 Nov 15 14:53

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Found out yesterday that that is exactly where the name Lucy came from!

A really old coal mine?