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Lego Darwin, Neanderthal, Lucy and Catarrhine

Category: Silliness
Posted on: September 5, 2006 9:46 PM, by afarensis, FCD

From here:

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"Charles Darwin represents Modern Man - Homo sapiens.

Next to Darwin stands a Neanderthal Man. The last common ancestor that Darwin and the Neanderthal shared probably lived about 500,000 years ago. Their lines then went their separate ways, with the Neanderthals eventually going extince some 28,000 years ago.

In front of the Neanderthal stands Lucy, the most famous representative of Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy may actually be one of Homo sapiens' direct ancestors. She lived sometime around 3-4 million years ago.
Finally Lucy stands next to an Old World monkey (those monkeys from Africa and Asia). The monkey is not a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens. We last shared an ancestor with the Old World monkeys around 25 million years ago, so they are very distant cousins indeed."

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The Neandertal doesn't look much like a Neandertal --- at least not to me. Oh, and Darwin doesn't look much like Darwin, except for the beard. Oh, and Lucy? Well, what *did* she look like, anyway?
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Posted by: Anne Gilbert | September 6, 2006 8:20 PM

I know, but it's the thought that counts...

Posted by: afarensis, FCD | September 6, 2006 9:58 PM

HA ha! These are mock ups ... The australopithecine uses a Sandpeople head from Star Wars. LEGO isn't this silly.

Posted by: Jaime A. Headden | September 7, 2006 8:46 PM