Monday, June 20, 2011

The Lucy Show

An amalgam of student exam answers culled from essays and spelled as written.

The fossil hominin Lucy, also known as ________________, (choose one)
  • Homo Australopithecus Africensus
  • Turkana Boy
  • Lucky
was found by _______________.
  • Donald

She is significant because ____________________.
  • her pelvis contain less lumerve memberane, and it is less cury compared to earlier hominins
  • she is a tranistional fossil by having both anostrial and deribed structures
  • she is half man from the waist down
An important aspect of Lucy's anatomy is/are her _______________________.
  • cerebral lucindum
  • forearm maguem
  • opposal thum
  • demastor and a potruting premolar
  • postorbital eyes
  • shaved ilium
We know that we are related to Lucy because _______________________.
  • of the fact that most mammals have vertebrae

8 comments:

  1. Though we should never forget the invertebrate mammals.

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  2. Opposal thum and a shaved ilium? Damn, that's my kind of chick. I guess she's pretty old. That's cool. I like cougars.

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  3. It's the "most" in "most mammals have vertebrae" that makes this a gold-standard bad entry. The ass-covering.

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  4. You gots more esplainin' to do about Lucy.

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  5. Well, at least the answer to the second question wasn't "the Donald."

    @Sawyer: I suspect Eskarina has 'splained a lot. The question is, were the students listenin' (or readin'). The answer to that seems to be "no."

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  6. @Beaker Ben: Are you into chicks who are half man from the waist down?

    @DrNathaniel: Yes.

    @Sawyer and CC: I thought of covering my shaven ilium by adding some of the excellent answers. But I went for humor rather than dignity.

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