Little Lucy

[mugaliens]

Your thoughts on this (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061207/sc_afp/sciencepaleontology_061207191940), please!

My thoughts:

Was little foot a smater distant cousin? If so, why might he have died out?

[Ozzy]

Perhaps the Pliestocene.

Ice Ages. Major climate and habitat changes.

Prior to that it seems the "hominid model" was surviving well on several fronts.

[aurora]

The fossil is a LOT older than the Pliestocene.

[Ozzy]

The Pleistocene epoch on the geologic timescale is the period from 1,808,000 to 11,550 years BP (Before Present). The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek pleistos (most) and ceno (new). The Pleistocene follows the Pliocene epoch and is followed by the Holocene epoch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Epoch

I interpreted "Why did he die?", as asking why did this type of hominid die. Just because the bones are dated at 2.2 Mya, doesnt mean Little Foot's descendents didnt live on for hundreds of thousand years. What is relevant is that Little Foot isnt our ancestor.

I was suggesting that perhaps the golden days of hominids were over, and Homo squidgyfoot went down with other hominids.