TenBrink, Carole

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Lucy of Hadar* M y three m i l l i o n years o l d h o m i n i d w h o r o a m e d the l u s h h i l l s of H a d a r . M o t h e r to E v e w a y back . W h e r e are a l l m y o ther m o t h e r s f r o m B a b y l o n back to y o u ? M y P r o g e n i t o r & P r i m a c y — C a n we r e a c h each o ther w i t h w h a t to mean? I jus t passed by as they d u g y o u o u t M y b o d y of bones — as they g u i d e d y o u o u t of the ear th c a n a l . A p e - w o m a n r i s e n f r o m y o u r p a l e o g r a v e y a r d to speak. Y o u s a i d — Because I w a l k e d u p r i g h t I g r e w a c lever b r a i n . I s a i d — Because I have y o u r c lever b r a i n I g r o w v i s i o n s . B u t c a n they last , y o u f r o w n e d w i t h the w a v e of y o u r bones i n ear th — S u c h a f o s s i l i z e d strata speech — I was t a k e n a b a c k — a n d s a i d T h e h i s t o r y of b r a i n waves c o u l d e m b e d itself i n s te l lar dus t O r i f I m u s t m y b o d y of a i r e x t i n g u i s h e d — b e l l o w c a n a l s o be m y s o n g . * Her fossilized bones were discovered in north eastern Ethiopia in Nov. 1974 by Johanson and White. They believe that Lucy is a previously unidentified species of aboriginal human. The bones are both ape-like and human like; ie. small brain, large canine teeth, but foot prints reveal one undeniably human quality — She walked upright. This lead to speculation that freeing the hands to use tools stimulated brain expansion only 3-5 million years ago, with greatly increased brain capacity developing extremely rapidly after that. Carole L . TenBrink Montreal, Quebec 

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