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Making Lucy: A Paleoartist Reconstructs Long-Lost Human Ancestors

By John Gurche/Courtesy of Yale University Press

An artist uses science, art and imagination to reconstruct the most famous Australopithecus, Lucy.

The Job of a Paleoartist

I have an interesting job. Some days it might involve paying a woman to climb up and down a pole naked while I take notes and photographs.

But that’s a terrible way to begin. Let me explain.

When I first learned of Lucy’s discovery, I wanted to build her. Lucy is the name given to a 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton attributed toAustralopithecus afarensis. It is a wonderful endeavor to seek answers to questions about how she lived, but seeing her as she may have appeared in life can make a connection for us that nothing else can foster.

My first chance to build Lucy’s body came in 1996, when the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (then Natural History) asked me to produce a life-sized, three-dimensional reconstruction, as lifelike as current methods would allow.

If her skeleton was properly articulated, and I used the muscle attachment sites visible on her bones to build her body muscle by muscle, what kind of creature would emerge?

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Great women of science  Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.  Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity.  Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) - Chinese American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity.  Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) - French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Mae Jemison (1956) - American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. Vera Rubin (1928) - American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.  Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) - English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world’s first computer programmer.

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Feminist texts written by women of color

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