Ray H. Posted October 26, 2014 Posted October 26, 2014 There was some bandying about on yesterday's call-in show that the hominid fossils known as Lucy are a hoax. The caller claimed that fossils were found miles apart and in different strata to compose an individual. This is false. In 1973, a knee joint was found for an individual that walked upright. The following year, at a site 1.6 miles from the knee joint find, hundreds of unduplicated bone fragments comprising 40% of a skeleton were found on a single slope in a single strata. These were called "Lucy". The original knee joint was a separate find from a separate specimen. There was never a claim that it was Lucy's knee. Lucy Not Lucy http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/knee-joint.html 5
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