New Fossil Sheds Light On Lucy's Family Tree

I_am_sci_guy writes "A new fossil of an older, and presumably male, specimen of the same species as the famed Lucy indicates that A. afarensis may have walked and moved more like humans than was currently believed. The features of the unusually complete skeleton 'denote a nearly humanlike gait and ground-based lifestyle,' according to anthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team, who found the specimen they call 'Big Man' and published preliminary results online today at PNAS (abstract; full text requires subscription). The article includes plenty of viewpoints dissenting from the conclusion that A. afarensis walked, and possibly ran, like modern humans do."

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Niggers

[Anonymous Coward]

Lucy was a nigger.

Re:Niggers

[Anonymous Coward]

Summary says:

A new fossil of an older, and presumably male, specimen of the same species as the famed Lucy indicates that A. afarensis may have walked and moved more like humans than was currently believed. The features of the unusually complete skeleton 'denote a nearly humanlike gait and ground-based lifestyle,' according to anthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team, who found the specimen they call 'Big Man' and published preliminary results online today at PNAS (abstract; full text requires subscription).

That definitely sounds like a description of niggers to me. It also explains why they have failed to adapt to modern civilization despite hundreds of years of experience with it and many generations born under it. Think about it:

To this day they speak a type of pidgin called "ebonics" instead of correct English. Other peoples who come to American learn to speak English indistinguishable from anyone else's within a generation or two. Why the disparity and why only niggers who cannot do this?

Then there's the disproportionally higher crime rate of niggers, again a reference to their primitive inability to deal with modern law and civil society. What could be "law of the jungle" more than thug culture and gang warfare in the streets? If racism is the true cause then why is black-on-black crime so much higher than white-on-black crime? Nobody's going to answer that because racism is not the cause. It is a response though not a good one.

Then there's things like their much higher rate of nigger children out of wedlock, a nice clinical way of saying bastard children abandoned by their own fathers. Like all children of single mothers they are much less likely to graduate, much more likely to be incarcerated, etc. Even when they're in school niggers as a whole have the lowest test scores compared to whites, Asians, and Latinos.

Again, our complex modern ways of life are still a culture shock to the primitive nigger. There is a reason why it was the white man who sailed halfway across the globe and discovered the black man and not the other way around. There is a reason why the native tribes of Africa that have been relatively undisturbed still have no technology more advanced than primitive hand tools.

There's some wonderful black people who choose not to be like this. They study, they work hard, and they do well like most people who do those things. But they had to endure all kinds of harassment about "acting white" and being an "uncle tom" simply for wanting to better themselves. The reason is obvious. They did not fit into the primitive backwards culture of the average nigger.

Full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

What the fuck do anthropologists know about physics of walking mechanics? We really gotta reign in these "soft scientists".

Vuvuzelas

[Hognoxious]

Fragments found within the pelvis indicate the cause of death was probably having a long, trumpet-like device shoved up its ass - big end first.

Re:Anyone else dissatisfied with science?

[Archangel Michael]

It is scientific fraud. Like Global Warming. If the facts don't support your view, simply make them up.

What is passing for "Science" is much like the religions they supposedly make fun of. I haven't seen the article, but I doubt, really doubt they show the bits and pieces they found and where each bit was when it was found.

Because people would instantly realize the fairytale that is passing itself off as science.