Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur, with her face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.This hairy picture of Lucy, it turns out, might be wrong.Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.

  • @gedaliyahOPM
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    186 months ago

    Well, I think it’s more about examining cultural biases in our scientific literature.

    • Flying Squid
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      -16 months ago

      If that was what I was supposed to take from the story, they seriously buried the lede by putting that at the very end of the article.