 | Evolution Finding Lucy Becoming a Fossil http://www.myspace.com/acorvettes The study of how life evolved would be impossible if not for the history that is told in the fossilized remains going back billions of years. Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated the planet's oceans. When they died, the plants and animals were buried by mud, sand, or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. |
 | Lucy in East Africa at 3.2 (Musical Study Guide) As a teaching assistant, I made this video to help students studying australopith(ecine)s try to keep straight some of the key points to know. The general point of view is that of an Australopithecus afarensis, like Lucy, and the dates referenced are in millions of years. I just want to mention a couple other things: 1. If somehow you don't know the song, it's the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and it's what the A. afarensis specimen Lucy was named after when she was discovered by Don Johanson in the 1970s. So it seemed appropriate to make up my own lame lyrics to the song, but I encourage anyone trying to study anything to make up their own songs. It makes for an excellent mnemonic device, and just the act of working on it helps cement the info in your head. 2. The information used in said lame lyrics is accurate as far as what my particular university teaches in the introductory human evolution class, so it's pretty basic. And the images, of course, are in many cases artistic reconstructions that I included because I think it's fascinating to imagine what they'd have looked and acted like. (Also, I cheated on the foramen magnum picture because I couldn't find an australopith one -- it's a modern human, but the australopithecine foramen magnum is centered enough to indicate bipedality.) 3. As a science/human evolution-related post, I cringe a little bit at the thought of the creationism vs. evolution sniping that could happen. I've watched enough videos on YouTube to know that even the most irrelevant videos can end up having such mud-slinging battles in the comments. Please don't use that kind of aggression here. Obviously, I personally believe that evolution was and is happening, but I respect other points of view and I'll never question anyone's intelligence for disagreeing with me. Additionally - in my mind, there is no reason faith and science can't get along, yet I see so many debates where people choose sides. There is no reason you must be forced to choose a side! If that's what you honestly deeply believe, then okay, but sometimes I think people on both "sides" really need to work on thinking for themselves. 4. Finally, this is my first ever attempt at using Movie Maker and creating what amounts to a glorified slide show, so apologies if it doesn't meet the quality standards of all the kids who can use technology like MacGyver uses duct tape and paper clips. :) (Ask your parents.) Good luck! |
 | Evolution - Becoming Human (Donald Johanson) A superb documentary on Evolution, Apes and the hominids, narrated by Professor Donald Johanson... |
 | Human Evolution The Last Human-A Guide To Twenty Two Extinct Humans. Created by G.J. Sawyer and Victor Deak. Text by Esteban Sarmiento, G.J. Sawyer, and Richard Milner. With Contributions by Donald C. Johanson, Meave Leakey, and Ian Tattersall. |
 | Hominid evolution & development - The Discovery From the moment of the 'Baby Lucy' discovery to the growing realisation of its significance, enjoy the history and excitement of this incredible and uncover what more we now know about ancient human origins and development. |
 | Evidence for Evolution - Hominid Fossils Pt.1 A brief overview of some of the fossils currently on record demonstrating the evolution of humans. Works Cited: http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/faq/encarta/encarta.htm http://www.becominghuman.org http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/uou-toh021105.php From Lucy to Language - Donald Johansson & Blake Edgar Encyclopedia of Evolution -- Stanley A. Rice PH.D Watch Part 2 here http://youtube.com/watch?v=tsZjCokzpJM |
 | Lucy - She's no lady The famous Lucy - supposedly half ape, half human. Watch how famous scientist uses power tool to grind away at the evidence to make sure that the hip appears to be that of a human, rather than the ape that it is. Typical evolutionist hoax, perpetrated on television before national audience. |
 | What's so important about Human Evolution? Dr. Donald Johanson discusses the importance of teaching Human Evolution in the public school. For more information about Dr. Johanson's Research visit the Institute of Human Origins at: http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/ |
 | An Evolutionist Finds the Truth of Creation Was Lucy An Ape-man? http://www.icr.org/article/1072 1976 - *Johnson said "Lucy has massive V-shaped jaws in contrast to man". (National Geographic Magazine, 150: 790-810). 1977 - Tiny skull, ape type head, chimp size braincase of 450cc. "was suprisingly short legged" (*Time, Novenber 7, 1979, pp. 68-69). 1979 - *Johanson and *White placed Lucy under ape/man classification (Australopithecus afarensis). 1979 - *Owen Lovejoy an anatomist, (Leakey's associate) at a lecture in the United States, states Lucy's knee joints revealed her to be as ape.1981 - *Johnson said, "embarrassingly un-Homo like" (Science 81, 2(2): 53-55). 1982 - *Dr. Yves Coppens on BBC-TV, Lucy's skull was like that of an ape. 1982 - thumb apelike, toes long and curved for tree climbing and "she probably nested in the trees and lived like others monkeys" *Susman and *Stern of New York University, (Bible Science Newsletter, 1982, p. 4) 1983 - *Jeremy Cherfas, Ankle bone (talus) tilts back like a gorilla (humans tilt forward for walking upright). "Unmistakable" differences between Lucy and humans (*J. Cherfas, New Science, (97: 172 [1982]. 1984 - "To Complicate matters further, some researchers believe that afarensis sample [Lucy] is really a mixture of two separate species. The most convincing evidence fot this is based on characterists of the knee and elbow joints." *Peter Andrews, "The Desent of Man," in New Svience, 102:24 (1984). 1990 - "Although the Lucy fossils were initally date at three million years, *Johnson had announced them as 3.5 million because he said the species was 'the same' as a skull found by *Mary Leaky at Laetoli, Tanzania. By proposing *Mary Leakey's find as the 'type specimen' for Australopithecus afarensis, he was identifing Lucy with another fossil 1,000 miles [1609 km] from the Afar [in northern Ethopia] and half a million years older! *Mary thought the two not at all the same and refused to have any part of linking her specimen with [*Johnson's] afarensis.. She announced that she strongly resented Johnson's 'approriating' her find, her reputation and the older date to lend authority to Lucy. Thus began the bitter, persistent feud between Johnson and the Leakeys." *R. Milner, Encyclopedia of Evolution (1990), p. 285. "Johnson himself originally described the fossils as Homo, a species of man, but soon after changed his mind based on the assessment of his colleague, *Tim White. They now describe the bones as too apelike in the jaws, teeth and skull to be considered Homo, yet also sufficiently distinct from other, later australopithecines to warrent their own species." *Ibid. "The evidence.. Makes its overwhelmingly likely that Lucy was no more than a variety of pigmy chimpanzee, and walked the same way (awkwardly upright on occasions, but mostly quadrupedal). The 'evidence' for alleged transformation from ape to man is extremely unconvincing." A.W. Mehlert, news note, Creation Research Society Quarterly, December 1985, p. 145. Quotes by Evolutionary Scientists Against Evolution - http://www.warneveryone.com/evolution_scientists_quotes.htm Live broadcasting with instant message - http://www.justin.tv/warneveryone KJV1611 Bible - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=authorizedversion&search=Search Gary Parker. Northwest Creation Network 23208 55th Ave W. Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043 206-465-1635 contact@nwcreation.net |
 | Laetoli Over three million years ago habitually bipedal hominids left prints in ash. From PBS' Evolution Library |
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