The remains of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid, discovered in 1974, were nicknamed this, after a Beatles song
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Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia  Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are ... Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, near the village Hadar in the Awash...
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Famed Lucy Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia, 40 Years Ago - History ...  Nov 24, 2014 ... On November 24, 1974, scientists in Africa unearthed the skeleton of one of humanity's oldest ancestors, a pint-sized Australopithecus they nicknamed Lucy. ... the partial remains of a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid. ... was eventually classified as a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus...
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Lucy's Story | Institute of Human Origins  There was drinking, dancing, and singing; the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky With ... Hominidae encompasses all species originating after the human/African ape ancestral split, ... Lucy is dated to just less than 3.18 million years old. ... Although several hundred fragments of hominid bone were found at the Lucy site, there...
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Who is Lucy the Australopithecus? Five facts you probably didn't ...  Nov 23, 2015 ... She lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago. First discovered in 1974, ... She was named after The Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'.
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Lucy the Hominid - Crystalinks  As they looked further, more and more bones were found, including a jaw, arm bone, ... The skeleton A.L. 444-2 was nicknamed Lucy, after the Beatles song "Lucy in the ... Lucy remains a treasure among anthropologists studying Human origins. .... The 3.2 million-year-old hominin was found on a treed flood plain, making a...
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J! Archive - Show #3136, aired 1998-03-30  In 1978 Mary Leakey noticed these, left by hominids 3 million years ago in .... This politician married Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice, who outlived him by 49...
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J! Archive - Show #3211, aired 1998-07-13  Feedback was first used in pop music in this Beatles song heard here: .... The character seen here is based on a role created by this actor in 1932: (The Mummy)...
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A historic ROCKIN' song . . . The Beatles - Rockin' Down the ...  Feb 22, 2007 ... McCartney's inspiration for the song could have been Alf Bicknell, chauffeur to the Beatles at the height of their fame. Bicknell began working for...
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Jeopary Questions page 525 - THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT ...  FROM THE GREEK: A battery of tests will tell you this element's name is from the Greek for "stony"  PEOPLE IN SONG: The Beatles' "I'm So Tired" says, "I'll have...
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Lovely Rita - Beatles Music History  Lovely Rita, Beatles songs, beatles history, recording history, songwriting history, song ... Raccoon, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill and Maxwell's Silver Hammer. ... This was about the time that parking meters were coming in; before that we'd been ... The Beatles with George Martin in EMI Studio Two, circa 1967...
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Becoming Human: The Evolution of Walking Upright | Science ...  Aug 6, 2012 ... Walking on two legs distinguished the first hominids from other apes, but scientists still aren't sure why our ancestors became bipedal. ... U.S. History .... unearthed the seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis in Chad. .... 6) Lovejoy's hypothesis is totally unfounded in facts and can not be seriously...
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Famed Lucy Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia, 40 Years Ago - History ...  Nov 24, 2014 ... On November 24, 1974, scientists in Africa unearthed the skeleton of ... Dr. Donald Johanson woke up on the morning of November 24, 1974, feeling lucky. .... as perhaps the most famous hominid fossil discovery ever made.
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Homo habilis | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program  Its name, which means 'handy man', was given in 1964 because this species was thought ... Currently, the oldest stone tools are dated slightly older than the oldest ... Paleoanthropologists are constantly in the field, excavating new areas, using ... Many scientists think early Homo, including H. habilis, made and used the first...
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The Spread of Homo sapiens - Cengage Learning  Australopithecine fossils have been found in Hadar, Ethiopia, where at least ... jaws, teeth, and footprints have been discovered that are 3.35 and 3.75 million years old. ... called Homo habilis (skillful man), found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. ... relied on a variety stone tools and in Europe, Neanderthals buried their dead.
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In the Year 2525 by Zager & Evans Songfacts  The song was subtitled "Exordium & Terminus," which is a fancy way of saying ... to the spoken word passage that open the 'Days of Future Passed' album. ... 2525 may have been their only hit, but I did hear one other Zager and Evans tune on...
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BBC - Earth - The 'Lucy' fossil rewrote the story of humanity  Nov 27, 2014 ... Forty years ago in east Africa, a team of scientists found a fossil that ... morning in late November 1974, a team of scientists were digging in an ... She belonged to a new species called Australopithecus afarensis, ... For Johanson, in the field at Hadar, it was immediately apparent that Lucy walked upright,...
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Homo erectus Modern Man: Evolution or Human Variability ...  Apr 1, 1994 ... Skull-cap profile of Java Man found by DuBois in 1891 - 1893. .... if the distinctions between erectus and modern humans are merely superficial...
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Pre-Adamic Earth. - Discussion Board - Beliefnet Community  In 1986 Argentine scientists discovered the fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur in Antarctica. ... When the name was first coined from the Greek words meaning terrible lizard ... Hadrosaurs were apparently bipedal, walking or running on two legs. .... They knew that such high concentrations of this rare element could come only...
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Homo erectus - Wikipedia  Homo erectus is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.9 million years ago and the most recent ..... The discovery of Turkana boy (H. ergaster) in 1984 evidenced that, despite its Homo sapiens-like anatomy, ergaster may not have...
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The Fall of Ziggy Stardust | MetaFilter  Jan 10, 2016 ... posted by raihan_ at 11:19 PM on January 10 [88 favorites] ...... posted by crocomancer at 1:59 AM on January 11 ..... 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie. ...... I know it's irrational. ...... I feel like I was past "sad" and into "celebrating his life" or whatever, but...
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Jeopary Questions page 1873 - SONGS - TriviaBistro.com  SONGS: (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): Beatles song whose opening chord is heard here:  COMPANY HISTORIES: After inventing soft-serve ice cream, "Grandpa"...