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Lucy In case you don't already have Spring Break plans, and you're feeling adventurous, the Houston Museum of Natural Science is hosting the only North American showing of Lucy, one of our earliest ancestors.

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My husband and I are planning a weekend trip down to Houston to see her, because well, what kind of biology teacher (and evolutionary biologist at heart) wouldn't go see this exhibit? I mean, really! Missing the opportunity to see Lucy would be like me going to London and not making a trip to Down House, where Darwin lived and wrote. What kind of a biology teacher would I be if I didn't actually take the opportunity to see who is widely regarded as the origin of the hominid line, which we are currently the terminal branch of.

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Lucy's in town until April 20. I'm stoked about going to visit her, to say the least. I think it will be cool to visit with the long-passed ancestor of all of us.

Posted by scienceguru on February 28, 2008
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Neil on paragraph 1:

see? we can look like monkeys without being monkeys. People who don’t believe in evolution need to get that through their heads.

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February 28, 2008 7:34 pm
Brigham on whole page :

Hmmm I might actually consider convincing my parents to drive us down there to “visit my brother” who is in Housten and then take a detour by the Museum…that would be kidna cool to see Lucy….I assume that is a recreated picture of her on the post?

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February 28, 2008 8:50 pm
scienceguru :

It’s an Australopithecus just like Lucy was. It is what she would have looked like 3.5 million years ago. :)

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February 28, 2008 10:33 pm
Joshua Geevarghese on whole page :

that is so cool, i really wan to go, it would b my spring break road trip
thats for letting us know

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February 28, 2008 9:02 pm
Isha Banerjea on whole page :

Who wouldn’t want to see our oldest ancestor? “Oh, hey Granny!” I’m going to visit Baylor so I don’t see why I wouldn’t go down further and see her? That’s amazing, have fun Ferg, I know you will.

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February 29, 2008 7:56 am
Kaitlin on whole page :

For spring break, my friends and I are all supposed to either go to Cancun or to Padre. However, I mentioned this and everyone kind of laughed and then after a moment of silence everyone was like well we could go do that. So I might actually be going to see Lucy over spring break as like a road trip. This is proof that even not so smart kids are even interested in science.

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February 29, 2008 1:26 pm
Stephen on whole page :

Beside frisbee this is probably the most exciting thing to hit dallas. i am going on a ski trip but i am making my parents go and take notes. i just think that is so interesting. imagine the first humans and what they look like. i know that its propbably not totally accuarate but it makes you think, and also those of us who have religious beliefs may change not our views but percpective. stephen out

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February 29, 2008 2:00 pm
Kishan on whole page :

You know it might be fun to see out oldest ancestor. I might just take the whole Spring break off from work and take the whole family down, it would be an interesting trip to go with the family with. Have a great time Ferg and Mr.Ferg, who knows I might even run into you guys down there.

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February 29, 2008 3:06 pm
Destiny on whole page :

Thats interesting and all, but I wont consider going…maybe i would have if it were closer…but I wouldnt want to add to the ozone layer by driving 5 hours just to see a pile of old bones (even if they are VERY IMPORTANT old bones)

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February 29, 2008 6:06 pm
Kristal Jackson on whole page :

I’m going to see if my mom will swing us by there on our way to Schlitterbahn during spring break. I saw the picture and immediately thought “Chewbacca”. Then I realized exactly who you were talking about. I didn’t realize that our ancestors were quite *that* hairy.

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February 29, 2008 6:33 pm

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